Weißer Sonntag

/[ˌvaɪ̯sɐ ˈzɔntaːk]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

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Weißer Sonntag is aGermanphrase. It means: der Sonntag nach Ostern, letzter der acht Tage der Osteroktav, „zweiter Sonntag der Osterzeit“ (nach katholischer Zählung) Pronounced [ˌvaɪ̯sɐ ˈzɔntaːk].

Key facts for Weißer Sonntag
PropertyValue
HeadwordWeißer Sonntag
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌvaɪ̯sɐ ˈzɔntaːk]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Weißer Sonntag is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Weißer Sonntag is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌvaɪ̯sɐ ˈzɔntaːk]. 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: "der Sonntag nach Ostern, letzter der acht Tage der Osteroktav, „zweiter Sonntag der Osterzeit“ (nach katholischer Zählung)".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Weißer Sonntag in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Weißer Sonntag, spelled W-E-I-S-S-E-R- -S-O-N-N-T-A-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    der Sonntag nach Ostern, letzter der acht Tage der Osteroktav, „zweiter Sonntag der Osterzeit“ (nach katholischer Zählung)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Weißer Sonntag"?
"Weißer Sonntag" is spelled W-E-I-SS-E-R- -S-O-N-N-T-A-G. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌvaɪ̯sɐ ˈzɔntaːk].
What does "Weißer Sonntag" mean?
As a phrase, "Weißer Sonntag" means: der Sonntag nach Ostern, letzter der acht Tage der Osteroktav, „zweiter Sonntag der Osterzeit“ (nach katholischer Zählung)
How do you pronounce "Weißer Sonntag"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Weißer Sonntag" is [ˌvaɪ̯sɐ ˈzɔntaːk]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Weißer Sonntag" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.