Sprachverwendung
[ˈʃpʁaːxfɛɐ̯ˌvɛndʊŋ]
The verdict
“Sprachverwendung” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anwendung der Sprache in Äußerungen
Corpus desk
Index DE-sprachverwendung · Sprachverwendung · German
Sprachverwendung · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sprachverwendung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpʁaːxfɛɐ̯ˌvɛndʊŋ] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sprachverwendung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sprachverwendung is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃpʁaːxfɛɐ̯ˌvɛndʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Anwendung der Sprache in Äußerungen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sprachverwendung in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Sprachverwendung, spelled S-P-R-A-C-H-V-E-R-W-E-N-D-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Anwendung der Sprache in Äußerungen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sprachverwendung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In der Linguistik wird klar zwischen der Sprache selbst, dem Sprachsystem (= Langue), und dem Gebrauch, der Verwendung dieses Systems (= Sprachverwendung, Parole) unterschieden.
„Gemeint sind fremdsprachliche Kompetenzen, die an Sprachverwendungen im Alltag, Beruf und in der Freizeit ausgerichtet sind.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.