Gedankenexperiment
[ɡəˈdaŋkn̩ʔɛkspeʁiˌmɛnt]
The verdict
“Gedankenexperiment” is uncommon German (frequency #73,521 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,521
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nur gedanklich und nicht praktisch durchgeführtes Experiment zum Beweisen einer Theorie
Corpus desk
Index DE-gedankenexperiment · Gedankenexperiment · German
Gedankenexperiment · rank #73,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,521
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gebrauche
Nearest frequency peer: gebrauche (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Gedankenexperiment“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gastwirte
Gastwirte
26,482 corpus weight
- gebrauche
gebrauche
26,481 corpus weight
- Gedankenexp…
Gedankenexperiment
26,480 corpus weight
- geflochtenen
geflochtenen
26,479 corpus weight
- geflucht
geflucht
26,478 corpus weight
- Gehalte
Gehalte
26,477 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gedankenexperiment“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gedankenexperiment |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈdaŋkn̩ʔɛkspeʁiˌmɛnt] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Frequency rank | #73,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gedankenexperiment“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gedankenexperiment is uncommon German at frequency #73,521 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈdaŋkn̩ʔɛkspeʁiˌmɛnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nur gedanklich und nicht praktisch durchgeführtes Experiment zum Beweisen einer Theorie".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gedankenexperiment in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gedankenexperiment, spelled G-E-D-A-N-K-E-N-E-X-P-E-R-I-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1nur gedanklich und nicht praktisch durchgeführtes Experiment zum Beweisen einer Theorie
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gedankenexperiment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In einem Gedankenexperiment waren die Forscher der Frage nachgegangen, was mit einem Astronauten passierte, wenn dieser in ein Schwarzes Loch stürzt.“
„Sobald wir mit dem Begriff Zeit zu experimentieren beginnen, und sei es auch nur als Gedankenexperiment oder zum rein intellektuellen Zeitvertreib, müssen wir feststellen, daß unsere Sprache und mit ihr unsere Denkprozesse uns sehr bald im Stich lassen.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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