inkommensurabel
[ɪnkɔmɛnzuˈʁaːbl̩]
The verdict
“inkommensurabel” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nicht vergleichbar; nicht zusammen messbar
Corpus desk
Index DE-inkommensurabel · inkommensurabel · German
inkommensurabel · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" 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 | inkommensurabel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɪnkɔmɛnzuˈʁaːbl̩] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „inkommensurabel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
inkommensurabel is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɪnkɔmɛnzuˈʁaːbl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for inkommensurabel, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is inkommensurabel, spelled I-N-K-O-M-M-E-N-S-U-R-A-B-E-L.
Definition
- 1nicht vergleichbar; nicht zusammen messbar
- 2Eigenschaft zweier Werte, die nicht ganzzahlige Vielfache einer dritten Zahl sind (also keinen gemeinsamen Teiler besitzen)
- 3nicht vergleichbar; über Stoffe mit Messwerten wegen fehlender, zum Vergleich geeigneter Eigenschaften
- 4nicht vergleichbar, unverträglich; über zweier Theorien (Paul Feyerabend)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inkommensurabel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zwei Werte sind inkommensurabel, wenn es keine gemeinsame Skala gibt, auf der sie gewichtet werden und zu einer Wertsumme aggregiert werden können.
„Deshalb, so folgern sie, muß der Zahl siebzehn eine besondere Bedeutung zugekommen sein, die für die Entwicklung inkommensurabler Zahlen von Bedeutung war.“
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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.