Darwinismus

/[daʁviˈnɪsmʊs]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#71,217

in German word usage

Misspellings

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Darwinismus is aGermannoun. It means: die von Charles Darwin (nahezu gleichzeitig mit A. R. Wallace) entwickelte Evolutionstheorie, nach der die an die Natur am besten angepassten (engl. "fit") Lebewesen überleben und sich weiter entwi... Pronounced [daʁviˈnɪsmʊs].

Key facts for Darwinismus
PropertyValue
HeadwordDarwinismus
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[daʁviˈnɪsmʊs]
Letters11
Frequency rank#71,217
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

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Position of Darwinismus in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

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Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Darwinismus is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [daʁviˈnɪsmʊs]. Corpus data places it at rank #71,217 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Darwinismus in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Darwinismus, spelled D-A-R-W-I-N-I-S-M-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    die von Charles Darwin (nahezu gleichzeitig mit A. R. Wallace) entwickelte Evolutionstheorie, nach der die an die Natur am besten angepassten (engl. "fit") Lebewesen überleben und sich weiter entwickeln
  2. 2
    Kurzbezeichnung für den Sozialdarwinismus, der die die Evolutionstheorie nach Darwin ([1]) in vielfältiger Weise auf den Sozialbereich des Menschen überträgt und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen in der Hauptsache auf Auseinandersetzungen im Kampf ums Dasein zurückführt

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Frequency rank: #71,217 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Darwinismus"?
"Darwinismus" is spelled D-A-R-W-I-N-I-S-M-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is [daʁviˈnɪsmʊs].
What does "Darwinismus" mean?
As a noun, "Darwinismus" means: die von Charles Darwin (nahezu gleichzeitig mit A. R. Wallace) entwickelte Evolutionstheorie, nach der die an die Natur am besten angepassten (engl. "fit") Lebewesen überleben und sich weiter entwi...
How do you pronounce "Darwinismus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Darwinismus" is [daʁviˈnɪsmʊs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.