kategorischen Imperativen
The verdict
“kategorischen Imperativen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 25
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dativ Plural der starken Flexion des Substantivs kategorischer Imperativ
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kategorischen Imperativen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kateˈɡoːʁɪʃn̩ ˈɪmpeʁatiːvn̩] |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kategorischen Imperativen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for kategorischen Imperativen is 25 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kateˈɡoːʁɪʃn̩ ˈɪmpeʁatiːvn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for kategorischen Imperativen 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 kategorischen Imperativen, spelled K-A-T-E-G-O-R-I-S-C-H-E-N- -I-M-P-E-R-A-T-I-V-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural der starken Flexion des Substantivs kategorischer Imperativ
- 2Dativ Plural der schwachen Flexion des Substantivs kategorischer Imperativ
- 3Dativ Plural der gemischten Flexion des Substantivs kategorischer Imperativ
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.
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- The one correct German spelling is K-A-T-E-G-O-R-I-S-C-H-E-N- -I-M-P-E-R-A-T-I-V-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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