Westfälischer Frieden
[vɛstˌfɛːlɪʃɐ ˈfʁiːdn̩]
The verdict
“Westfälischer Frieden” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die am 24. Oktober 1648 abgeschlossenen Friedensverträge Kaiser Ferdinands III mit Frankreich und Schweden, die den Dreißigjährigen Krieg beendeten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Westfälischer Frieden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [vɛstˌfɛːlɪʃɐ ˈfʁiːdn̩] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Westfälischer Frieden” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Westfälischer Frieden is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vɛstˌfɛːlɪʃɐ ˈfʁiːdn̩]. 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: "die am 24. Oktober 1648 abgeschlossenen Friedensverträge Kaiser Ferdinands III mit Frankreich und Schweden, die den Dreißigjährigen Krieg beendeten".
No misspelling variants are generated for Westfälischer Frieden 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 Westfälischer Frieden, spelled W-E-S-T-F-Ä-L-I-S-C-H-E-R- -F-R-I-E-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die am 24. Oktober 1648 abgeschlossenen Friedensverträge Kaiser Ferdinands III mit Frankreich und Schweden, die den Dreißigjährigen Krieg beendeten
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- The one correct German spelling is W-E-S-T-F-Ä-L-I-S-C-H-E-R- -F-R-I-E-D-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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