Aporie
[apoˈʁiː]
The verdict
“Aporie” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Ratlosigkeit, die Ausweglosigkeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-aporie · Aporie · German
Aporie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" 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 | Aporie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [apoˈʁiː] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Aporie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Aporie is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [apoˈʁiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Aporie has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Aporie, spelled A-P-O-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1die Ratlosigkeit, die Ausweglosigkeit
- 2die Unmöglichkeit, zur Auflösung eines Problems zu gelangen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Aporie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir befinden uns oft in einer Aporie zwischen „Abwarten“ und „Handeln“.
„Auf dem Hintergrund der Aporien von Dualismus und psycho-physischem Parallelismus, die eine Beeinflussung von materiellen und geistigen Prozessen ausschließen, formulierte De La Mettrie zum ersten Mal einen materialistischen Monismus: Alle seelischen Regungen haben eine physiologische Ursache; […]“
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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.