Herrschaft
\ˈhɛʁ.ʃaft\
The verdict
“Herrschaft” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autorité, domination, règne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herrschaft · Herrschaft · French
Herrschaft · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Herrschaft |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɛʁ.ʃaft\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Herrschaft is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhɛʁ.ʃaft\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Herrschaft in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Herrschaft, spelled H-E-R-R-S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Autorité, domination, règne.
- 2Pouvoir.
- 3Maître de maison ou maîtresse de maison.
- 4Messieurs-dames, (au pluriel).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Herrschaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fraglich ist auch, ob die unmenschliche Zero-Covid-Politik am Ende nicht auch die Herrschaft der KP gefährdet.
Demokratie ist viel mehr als die Herrschaft dessen, der Wahlen gewinnt. Die Islamisten, die den pluralistischen Anspruch fallen ließen, sobald sie gewählt in den Ämtern und Institutionen saßen, verantworten die Rückkehr des Autoritarismus in der arabischen Welt mit.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.