hermeneutisch
[hɛʁmeˈnɔɪ̯tɪʃ]
The verdict
“hermeneutisch” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Hermeneutik betreffend
Corpus desk
Index DE-hermeneutisch · hermeneutisch · German
hermeneutisch · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hermeneutisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [hɛʁmeˈnɔɪ̯tɪʃ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hermeneutisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hermeneutisch is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [hɛʁmeˈnɔɪ̯tɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
hermeneutisch has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 hermeneutisch, spelled H-E-R-M-E-N-E-U-T-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1die Hermeneutik betreffend
- 2einen Text oder ein Dokument auslegend und erklärend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hermeneutisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Tiefgreifende geistige Umbrüche … und ein gebrochenes Verhältnis zu aller überkommenen Überlieferung sind die Voraussetzung zur Ausbildung eines ausdrücklichen Bewußtseins umfassenderer hermeneutischer Problematik.“
Gegen die Vorwürfe der Subjektivität und Beliebigkeit der hermeneutischen Methode seitens der Naturwissenschaft hat die Philosophie eingewandt, dass jedes Erkennen - und damit auch das naturwissenschaftliche - immer schon ein nur hermeneutisch zu erschließendes Vorverständnis erfordert. Dieser sogenannte hermeneutische Zirkel läßt sich durch nichts unterb…
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