unbefleckte Empfängnis
The verdict
“unbefleckte Empfängnis” 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
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: römisch-katholisches Glaubensdogma, demzufolge die Gottesmutter Maria vor der Erbsünde bewahrt wurde
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unbefleckte Empfängnis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʊnbəˌflɛktə ɛmˈp͡fɛŋnɪs] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “unbefleckte Empfängnis” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for unbefleckte Empfängnis is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊnbəˌflɛktə ɛmˈp͡fɛŋnɪs]. 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: "römisch-katholisches Glaubensdogma, demzufolge die Gottesmutter Maria vor der Erbsünde bewahrt wurde".
No misspelling variants are generated for unbefleckte Empfängnis 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 unbefleckte Empfängnis, spelled U-N-B-E-F-L-E-C-K-T-E- -E-M-P-F-Ä-N-G-N-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1römisch-katholisches Glaubensdogma, demzufolge die Gottesmutter Maria vor der Erbsünde bewahrt wurde
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- The one correct German spelling is U-N-B-E-F-L-E-C-K-T-E- -E-M-P-F-Ä-N-G-N-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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