innere Emigration
The verdict
“innere Emigration” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: oppositionelle Haltung (von Künstlern) zu einem Staat, einer Religion, Anschauung oder Ähnlichem, ohne jedoch auszuwandern
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | innere Emigration |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈɪnəʁə emiɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “innere Emigration” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for innere Emigration is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɪnəʁə emiɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "oppositionelle Haltung (von Künstlern) zu einem Staat, einer Religion, Anschauung oder Ähnlichem, ohne jedoch auszuwandern".
No misspelling variants are generated for innere Emigration in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 innere Emigration, spelled I-N-N-E-R-E- -E-M-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1oppositionelle Haltung (von Künstlern) zu einem Staat, einer Religion, Anschauung oder Ähnlichem, ohne jedoch auszuwandern
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- The one correct German spelling is I-N-N-E-R-E- -E-M-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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