Wort des Jahres
[ˌvɔʁt dɛs ˈjaːʁəs]
The verdict
“Wort des Jahres” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - von einem Gremium ausgewähltes Wort, das aus genanntem Grund für das angegebene Jahr bezeichnend ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wort des Jahres |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌvɔʁt dɛs ˈjaːʁəs] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wort des Jahres” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wort des Jahres is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌvɔʁt dɛs ˈjaːʁəs]. 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: "von einem Gremium ausgewähltes Wort, das aus genanntem Grund für das angegebene Jahr bezeichnend ist".
No misspelling variants are generated for Wort des Jahres 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 Wort des Jahres, spelled W-O-R-T- -D-E-S- -J-A-H-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1von einem Gremium ausgewähltes Wort, das aus genanntem Grund für das angegebene Jahr bezeichnend ist
Antonyms
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- The one correct German spelling is W-O-R-T- -D-E-S- -J-A-H-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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