innere Emigration

/[ˈɪnəʁə emiɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]/ phrase

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

Key facts for innere Emigration
PropertyValue
Headwordinnere Emigration
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈɪnəʁə emiɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “innere Emigration” sits in German frequency

innere Emigration falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    oppositionelle Haltung (von Künstlern) zu einem Staat, einer Religion, Anschauung oder Ähnlichem, ohne jedoch auszuwandern

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "innere Emigration"?
"innere Emigration" is spelled I-N-N-E-R-E- -E-M-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɪnəʁə emiɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn].
What does "innere Emigration" mean?
As a phrase, "innere Emigration" means: oppositionelle Haltung (von Künstlern) zu einem Staat, einer Religion, Anschauung oder Ähnlichem, ohne jedoch auszuwandern
How do you pronounce "innere Emigration"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "innere Emigration" is [ˈɪnəʁə emiɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "innere Emigration" come from?
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Using “innere Emigration”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as [ˈɪnəʁə emiɡʁaˈt͡si̯oːn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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