gumption
Letters
8 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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gumption is aGermannoun. It means: gesunder Menschenverstand, praktische Veranlagung Pronounced [ˈɡʌmpʃən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gumption |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡʌmpʃən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for gumption is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡʌmpʃən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gumption in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 gumption, spelled G-U-M-P-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1gesunder Menschenverstand, praktische Veranlagung
- 2die Courage, der Grips, der Mut, der Mumm
- 3die Aufdringlichkeit, die Bauernschläue, die Cleverness, die Geriebenheit, die Gerissenheit, die Initiative, der Einfallsreichtum, die Findigkeit, die Genialität, der Scharfsinn, die Schlauheit, die Schläue, der Unternehmungsgeist, die Unternehmungslust
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