cogito ergo sum

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for cogito ergo sum is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkoːɡitoː ˈɛrɡoː ˈsʊm]. 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: "Zurückführung der Existenz auf die Fähigkeit des Denkens".

No misspelling variants are generated for cogito ergo sum 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 cogito ergo sum, spelled C-O-G-I-T-O- -E-R-G-O- -S-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.