Stechpalme
[ˈʃtɛçˌpalmə]
The verdict
“Stechpalme” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - immergrüner Strauch der Familie der Stechpalmengewächse (Gattung Ilex)
Corpus desk
Index DE-stechpalme · Stechpalme · German
Stechpalme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | Stechpalme |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɛçˌpalmə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Stechpalme“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Stechpalme is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtɛçˌpalmə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "immergrüner Strauch der Familie der Stechpalmengewächse (Gattung Ilex)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Stechpalme, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Stechpalme, spelled S-T-E-C-H-P-A-L-M-E.
Definition
- 1immergrüner Strauch der Familie der Stechpalmengewächse (Gattung Ilex)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Stechpalme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In England sind Stechpalmen eine traditionelle Weihnachtsdekoration.
This word in other languages
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.