Union of Socialist Soviet Republics

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The verdict

“Union of Socialist Soviet Republics” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
35
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken

Key facts for Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
PropertyValue
HeadwordUnion of Socialist Soviet Republics
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[…]
Letters35
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Union of Socialist Soviet Republics” sits in German frequency

Union of Socialist Soviet Republics falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is 35 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken".

No misspelling variants are generated for Union of Socialist Soviet Republics 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 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, spelled U-N-I-O-N- -O-F- -S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-T- -S-O-V-I-E-T- -R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken

Synonyms

USSRSoviet Union

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"?
"Union of Socialist Soviet Republics" is spelled U-N-I-O-N- -O-F- -S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-T- -S-O-V-I-E-T- -R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Union of Socialist Soviet Republics" mean?
As a proper noun, "Union of Socialist Soviet Republics" means: Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken
How do you pronounce "Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Union of Socialist Soviet Republics" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “Union of Socialist Soviet Republics”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is U-N-I-O-N- -O-F- -S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-T- -S-O-V-I-E-T- -R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-S - 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.

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