worship
[ˈwɜːʃɪp]
The verdict
“worship” is uncommon German (frequency #68,902 among 38,697 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,902
- frequency rank, German
- 38,697
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Verehrung von Gott, einer heiligen Person oder überirdischen Kräften
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | worship |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈwɜːʃɪp] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “worship” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
worship is uncommon German at frequency #68,902 among 38,697 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈwɜːʃɪp]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for worship in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct German form is worship, spelled W-O-R-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1Verehrung von Gott, einer heiligen Person oder überirdischen Kräften
- 2Gottesdienst
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “worship”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-O-R-S-H-I-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.