Heteronomie
[ˌheteʁonoˈmiː]
The verdict
“Heteronomie” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abhängigkeit, Unselbstständigkeit, von außen her bezogene Gesetzgebung
Corpus desk
Index DE-heteronomie · Heteronomie · German
Heteronomie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | Heteronomie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌheteʁonoˈmiː] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Heteronomie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Heteronomie is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌheteʁonoˈmiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Heteronomie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Heteronomie, spelled H-E-T-E-R-O-N-O-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Abhängigkeit, Unselbstständigkeit, von außen her bezogene Gesetzgebung
- 2Abhängigkeit von anderer als der eigenen sittlichen Gesetzmäßigkeit, unfrei im Willen
- 3Zoologie: Verschiedenartigkeit der Segmente eines Tierkörpers
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Heteronomie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wenn der Wille irgend worin anders, als in der Tauglichkeit seiner Maximen zu seiner eigenen allgemeinen Gesetzgebung, mithin, wenn er, indem er über sich selbst hinausgeht, in der Beschaffenheit irgend eines seiner Objecte das Gesetz sucht, das ihn bestimmen soll, so kommt jederzeit Heteronomie heraus.“
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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.