Weihnachten

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The German entry for Weihnachten is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvaɪ̯naxtn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,001 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "christlicher Feiertag am 25. Dezember, an dem die Geburt von Jesus Christus gefeiert wird; in vielen Staaten ein gesetzlicher Feiertag und Auftakt der Weihnachtsferien; in Deutschland, Österreich u...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for Weihnachten, with forms such as "ewihnachten", "wehinachten", and "weihanchten". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Weihnachts", "Weihnacht", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Weihnachten, spelled W-E-I-H-N-A-C-H-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.