Weihnachtsmann
Letters
14 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,068
in German word usage
Misspellings
21
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Weihnachtsmann is aGermannoun. It means: eine dem Nikolaus ähnliche, männliche Gestalt in einem mit weißem Pelz verbrämten, roten Mantel, mit Rute und mit einem großen Sack, in dem sich die Gaben befinden, die sie den Kindern an Weihnacht... Pronounced [ˈvaɪ̯naxt͡sˌman].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Weihnachtsmann |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvaɪ̯naxt͡sˌman] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #13,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Weihnachtsmann is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvaɪ̯naxt͡sˌman]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,068 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 21 documented wrong-spelling variants for Weihnachtsmann, with forms such as "ewihnachtsmann", "wehinachtsmann", and "weihanchtsmann". 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 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 Weihnachtsmann, spelled W-E-I-H-N-A-C-H-T-S-M-A-N-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine dem Nikolaus ähnliche, männliche Gestalt in einem mit weißem Pelz verbrämten, roten Mantel, mit Rute und mit einem großen Sack, in dem sich die Gaben befinden, die sie den Kindern an Weihnachten bringt (Symbolfigur des weihnachtlichen Schenkens); Person, die als diese Gestalt verkleidet ist
- 2vertrottelter oder vertrottelt scheinender Mensch
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ewihnachtsmann,wehinachtsmann,weihanchtsmann,weihhnachtsmann,weihnacchtsmann,weihnachhtsmann,weihnachstmann,weihnachtmsann,weihnachtsamnn,weihnachtsman,weihnachtsmmann,weihnachtsmnan,weihnachtssmann,weihnachttsmann,weihnacthsmann,weihnahctsmann,weihncahtsmann,weihnnachtsmann,weinhachtsmann,wiehnachtsmann,wweihnachtsmann
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Misspelling Variants of "Weihnachtsmann"
Frequency rank: #13,068 in German
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