Völkerschaft
[ˈfœlkɐʃaft]
The verdict
“Völkerschaft” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleine ethnische Gemeinschaft aus einer oder auch mehreren/vielen Ethnien
Corpus desk
Index DE-volkerschaft · Völkerschaft · German
Völkerschaft · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | Völkerschaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfœlkɐʃaft] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Völkerschaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Völkerschaft is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfœlkɐʃaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kleine ethnische Gemeinschaft aus einer oder auch mehreren/vielen Ethnien".
Völkerschaft doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Völkerschaft, spelled V-Ö-L-K-E-R-S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1kleine ethnische Gemeinschaft aus einer oder auch mehreren/vielen Ethnien
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Völkerschaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Herrschaft über Länder mit nichtrussischen Völkerschaften zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch die russische Geschichte.“
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.