Staatskirche
[ˈʃtaːt͡sˌkɪʁçə]
The verdict
“Staatskirche” is uncommon German (frequency #93,637 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,637
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - christliche Religionsgemeinschaft, die in einem Staat aufgrund geltenden Rechts zur offiziellen Religion bestimmt wurde
| 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) |
Where “Staatskirche” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Staatskirche is uncommon German at frequency #93,637 among 107,600 “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
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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Using “Staatskirche”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-A-A-T-S-K-I-R-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.