Fehlschluss
German, noun[ˈfeːlʃlʊs]
Fehlschluss is spelled F-E-H-L-S-C-H-L-U-S-S (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 75,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fehlschluss is a German masculine noun meaning “fallacy (false argument)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “falscher Schluss, falsch gefolgerte Aussage”.
What does Fehlschluss mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefallacy (false argument)
ein logischer Fehlschluss
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. falscher Schluss, falsch gefolgerte Aussage
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Fehlschluss
- Fehlschlusses genitive
- Fehlschlüsse plural
- Fehlschlusse dative singular
- Fehlschlüssen dative definite plural
- Fehlschluß alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Fehlschluss?
- [ˈfeːlʃlʊs]
- [ˈfeːlˌʃlʊs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Fehlschluss
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Fehlschluss in German?
Fehlschluss appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).