Ecce homo

/[ˈɛkt͡sə ˈhoːmo]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Ecce homo is aGermannoun. It means: Ausspruch des Pilatus nach dem Johannesevangelium, als er Jesus dem Volke vorführte: »Seht da den Menschen!«, Da ist der Mensch! ( Johannes 19,5 EU) oder in der Übersetzung Martin Luthers: »Sehet, ... Pronounced [ˈɛkt͡sə ˈhoːmo].

Key facts for Ecce homo
PropertyValue
HeadwordEcce homo
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈɛkt͡sə ˈhoːmo]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Ecce homo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Ecce homo is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɛkt͡sə ˈhoːmo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Ecce homo 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 Ecce homo, spelled E-C-C-E- -H-O-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ausspruch des Pilatus nach dem Johannesevangelium, als er Jesus dem Volke vorführte: »Seht da den Menschen!«, Da ist der Mensch! ( Johannes 19,5 EU) oder in der Übersetzung Martin Luthers: »Sehet, welch ein Mensch!«
  2. 2
    (seit dem 15. Jahrhundert häufige) Darstellung Christi nach der Geißelung mit der Dornenkrone, dem Spottmantel und dem Rohr

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ecce homo"?
"Ecce homo" is spelled E-C-C-E- -H-O-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɛkt͡sə ˈhoːmo].
What does "Ecce homo" mean?
As a noun, "Ecce homo" means: Ausspruch des Pilatus nach dem Johannesevangelium, als er Jesus dem Volke vorführte: »Seht da den Menschen!«, Da ist der Mensch! ( Johannes 19,5 EU) oder in der Übersetzung Martin Luthers: »Sehet, ...
How do you pronounce "Ecce homo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Ecce homo" is [ˈɛkt͡sə ˈhoːmo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Ecce homo" come from?
"Ecce homo" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.