Staatskirche
[ˈʃtaːt͡sˌkɪʁçə]
The verdict
“Staatskirche” is uncommon German (frequency #93,637 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,637
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - christliche Religionsgemeinschaft, die in einem Staat aufgrund geltenden Rechts zur offiziellen Religion bestimmt wurde
Corpus desk
Index DE-staatskirche · Staatskirche · German
Staatskirche · rank #93,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,637
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Squire
Nearest frequency peer: Squire (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Staatskirche“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- spätgotisch…
spätgotischen
6,367 corpus weight
- spül
spül
6,366 corpus weight
- Squire
Squire
6,365 corpus weight
- Staatskirche
Staatskirche
6,364 corpus weight
- Staatsverwa…
Staatsverwaltung
6,362 corpus weight
- stader
stader
6,360 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Staatskirche“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Staatskirche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaːt͡sˌkɪʁçə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #93,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Staatskirche“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Staatskirche is uncommon German at frequency #93,637 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtaːt͡sˌkɪʁçə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "christliche Religionsgemeinschaft, die in einem Staat aufgrund geltenden Rechts zur offiziellen Religion bestimmt wurde".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Staatskirche in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Staatskirche, spelled S-T-A-A-T-S-K-I-R-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1christliche Religionsgemeinschaft, die in einem Staat aufgrund geltenden Rechts zur offiziellen Religion bestimmt wurde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Staatskirche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Im frankistischen Spanien fungierte die Katholische Kirche als Staatskirche.
„Die Gegnerschaft gegen die Kindertaufe war die logische Folge der Gegnerschaft gegen die Staatskirche.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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