gemäßigten
[ɡəˈmɛːsɪçtn̩]
The verdict
“gemäßigten” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gemäßigten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈmɛːsɪçtn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gemäßigten” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for gemäßigten is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈmɛːsɪçtn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for gemäßigten 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 gemäßigten, spelled G-E-M-Ä-S-S-I-G-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
- 4Dativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
- 5Genitiv Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
- 6Dativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
- 8Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
- 9Genitiv Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
- 10Dativ Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
- 11Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
- 12Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gemäßigt
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gemäßigten”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-M-Ä-S-S-I-G-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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