Egotismus
Letters
9 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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Egotismus is aGermannoun. It means: übertriebene Neigung, sich selbst in den Vordergrund zu stellen Pronounced [eɡoˈtɪsmʊs].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Egotismus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eɡoˈtɪsmʊs] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Egotismus is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eɡoˈtɪsmʊs]. 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: "übertriebene Neigung, sich selbst in den Vordergrund zu stellen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Egotismus 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 Egotismus, spelled E-G-O-T-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
- 1übertriebene Neigung, sich selbst in den Vordergrund zu stellen
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