gesunder Menschenverstand
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The verdict
“gesunder Menschenverstand” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - grundlegende Fähigkeit, vernünftige und realistische Urteile im Alltag zu treffen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gesunder Menschenverstand |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gesunder Menschenverstand” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gesunder Menschenverstand is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "grundlegende Fähigkeit, vernünftige und realistische Urteile im Alltag zu treffen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gesunder Menschenverstand, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is gesunder Menschenverstand, spelled G-E-S-U-N-D-E-R- -M-E-N-S-C-H-E-N-V-E-R-S-T-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1grundlegende Fähigkeit, vernünftige und realistische Urteile im Alltag zu treffen
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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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- The one correct German spelling is G-E-S-U-N-D-E-R- -M-E-N-S-C-H-E-N-V-E-R-S-T-A-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.