kategorischer Imperative
The verdict
“kategorischer Imperative” 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
- 24
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Genitiv Plural der starken Flexion des Substantivs kategorischer Imperativ
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kategorischer Imperative |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kateˈɡoːʁɪʃɐ ˈɪmpeʁatiːvə] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kategorischer Imperative” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for kategorischer Imperative is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kateˈɡoːʁɪʃɐ ˈɪmpeʁatiːvə]. 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: "Genitiv Plural der starken Flexion des Substantivs kategorischer Imperativ".
No misspelling variants are generated for kategorischer Imperative 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 kategorischer Imperative, spelled K-A-T-E-G-O-R-I-S-C-H-E-R- -I-M-P-E-R-A-T-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Plural der starken Flexion des Substantivs kategorischer Imperativ
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- The one correct German spelling is K-A-T-E-G-O-R-I-S-C-H-E-R- -I-M-P-E-R-A-T-I-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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