Stein der Weisen
[ʃtaɪ̯n deːɐ̯ ˈvaɪ̯zn̩]
The verdict
“Stein der Weisen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Substanz, die unedle Metalle in Gold oder Silber verwandelt, allgemeiner: die prima materia, der Urstoff aller Dinge, der von aller Krankheit heilt und unsterblich macht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stein der Weisen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ʃtaɪ̯n deːɐ̯ ˈvaɪ̯zn̩] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Stein der Weisen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Stein der Weisen is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃtaɪ̯n deːɐ̯ ˈvaɪ̯zn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Substanz, die unedle Metalle in Gold oder Silber verwandelt, allgemeiner: die prima materia, der Urstoff aller Dinge, der von aller Krankheit heilt und unsterblich macht".
No misspelling variants are generated for Stein der Weisen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Stein der Weisen, spelled S-T-E-I-N- -D-E-R- -W-E-I-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Substanz, die unedle Metalle in Gold oder Silber verwandelt, allgemeiner: die prima materia, der Urstoff aller Dinge, der von aller Krankheit heilt und unsterblich macht
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- The one correct German spelling is S-T-E-I-N- -D-E-R- -W-E-I-S-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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