Autodidakt
[aʊ̯todiˈdakt]
The verdict
“Autodidakt” is uncommon German (frequency #68,028 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,028
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Person, die selbstständig, ohne Lehrer lernt, sich etwas beibringt
Corpus desk
Index DE-autodidakt · Autodidakt · German
Autodidakt · rank #68,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,028
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Auswärtsniede…
Nearest frequency peer: Auswärtsniederlage (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Autodidakt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- aussagekräf…
aussagekräftiger
31,976 corpus weight
- aussichtsre…
aussichtsreich
31,975 corpus weight
- Auswärtsnie…
Auswärtsniederlage
31,974 corpus weight
- Autodidakt
Autodidakt
31,973 corpus weight
- Autorenkoll…
Autorenkollektiv
31,972 corpus weight
- Autorschaft
Autorschaft
31,971 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Autodidakt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Autodidakt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aʊ̯todiˈdakt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Autodidakt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Autodidakt is uncommon German at frequency #68,028 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aʊ̯todiˈdakt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Person, die selbstständig, ohne Lehrer lernt, sich etwas beibringt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Autodidakt, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Autodidakt, spelled A-U-T-O-D-I-D-A-K-T.
Definition
- 1eine Person, die selbstständig, ohne Lehrer lernt, sich etwas beibringt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Autodidakt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Viele Wissenschaftler waren Autodidakten.
„Kari Korhonen ist mit seinen Arbeiten sicher einer der erfolgreichsten Comic-Künstler Finnlands, dabei ist er in seinem Fach ein absoluter Autodidakt.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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