kleinster gemeinsamer Nenner
[ˌklaɪ̯nstɐ ɡəˌmaɪ̯nzaːmɐ ˈnɛnɐ]
The verdict
“kleinster gemeinsamer Nenner” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - kleinstmögliches Vielfaches von zwei oder mehr Nennern (= Zahl in einem Bruch, durch die dividiert wird) ohne Rest
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kleinster gemeinsamer Nenner |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌklaɪ̯nstɐ ɡəˌmaɪ̯nzaːmɐ ˈnɛnɐ] |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kleinster gemeinsamer Nenner” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for kleinster gemeinsamer Nenner is 28 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌklaɪ̯nstɐ ɡəˌmaɪ̯nzaːmɐ ˈnɛnɐ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for kleinster gemeinsamer Nenner 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 kleinster gemeinsamer Nenner, spelled K-L-E-I-N-S-T-E-R- -G-E-M-E-I-N-S-A-M-E-R- -N-E-N-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1kleinstmögliches Vielfaches von zwei oder mehr Nennern (= Zahl in einem Bruch, durch die dividiert wird) ohne Rest
- 2minimaler Konsens, minimale Gemeinsamkeit, der am wenigsten ambitionierte Kompromiss
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- The one correct German spelling is K-L-E-I-N-S-T-E-R- -G-E-M-E-I-N-S-A-M-E-R- -N-E-N-N-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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