Sprachpurismus
German, noun/ˈʃpʁaːxpuˌʁɪsmʊs/
Sprachpurismus is spelled S-P-R-A-C-H-P-U-R-I-S-M-U-S (14 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written German, the 482,822nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sprachpurismus is a German masculine noun meaning “linguistic purism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Bestrebung, eine Sprache von Einflüssen anderer Sprachen zu befreien oder frei zu halten”.
What does Sprachpurismus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelinguistic purism
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bestrebung, eine Sprache von Einflüssen anderer Sprachen zu befreien oder frei zu halten
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Sprachpurismus
- Sprachpurismen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Sprachpurismus?
- /ˈʃpʁaːxpuˌʁɪsmʊs/
- [ˈʃpʁaːxpuˌʁɪsmʊs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Sprachpurismus in German?
Sprachpurismus appears about once in every 62 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).