generischem Maskulinum
[ɡeˈneːʁɪʃm̩ ˈmaskuliːnʊm]
The verdict
“generischem Maskulinum” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dativ Singular der starken Deklination des Substantivs generisches Maskulinum
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | generischem Maskulinum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡeˈneːʁɪʃm̩ ˈmaskuliːnʊm] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “generischem Maskulinum” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for generischem Maskulinum is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡeˈneːʁɪʃm̩ ˈmaskuliːnʊm]. 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: "Dativ Singular der starken Deklination des Substantivs generisches Maskulinum".
No misspelling variants are generated for generischem Maskulinum 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 generischem Maskulinum, spelled G-E-N-E-R-I-S-C-H-E-M- -M-A-S-K-U-L-I-N-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dativ Singular der starken Deklination des Substantivs generisches Maskulinum
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- The one correct German spelling is G-E-N-E-R-I-S-C-H-E-M- -M-A-S-K-U-L-I-N-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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