südliche Breite
[ˌzyːtlɪçə ˈbʁaɪ̯tə]
The verdict
“südliche Breite” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die südliche der geographischen Breiten, eine Winkelangabe im geographischen Koordinatensystem (zum Beispiel der Erde), welche zwischen dem Äquator (0°) und dem Südpol (90°) liegt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | südliche Breite |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌzyːtlɪçə ˈbʁaɪ̯tə] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “südliche Breite” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for südliche Breite is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌzyːtlɪçə ˈbʁaɪ̯tə]. 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: "die südliche der geographischen Breiten, eine Winkelangabe im geographischen Koordinatensystem (zum Beispiel der Erde), welche zwischen dem Äquator (0°) und dem Südpol (90°) liegt".
No misspelling variants are generated for südliche Breite 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 südliche Breite, spelled S-Ü-D-L-I-C-H-E- -B-R-E-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die südliche der geographischen Breiten, eine Winkelangabe im geographischen Koordinatensystem (zum Beispiel der Erde), welche zwischen dem Äquator (0°) und dem Südpol (90°) liegt
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.
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