Leninismus
[leniˈnɪsmʊs]
The verdict
“Leninismus” is uncommon German (frequency #55,513 among 30,953 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,513
- frequency rank, German
- 30,953
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - politische Strömung, die auf den Ideen des russischen Politikers und kommunistischen Revolutionärs sowie marxistischen Theoretikers basieren, und die den Marxismus an die historischen Bedingungen d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leninismus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leniˈnɪsmʊs] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Leninismus” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Leninismus is uncommon German at frequency #55,513 among 30,953 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [leniˈnɪsmʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "politische Strömung, die auf den Ideen des russischen Politikers und kommunistischen Revolutionärs sowie marxistischen Theoretikers basieren, und die den Marxismus an die historischen Bedingungen d...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Leninismus, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Leninismus, spelled L-E-N-I-N-I-S-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1politische Strömung, die auf den Ideen des russischen Politikers und kommunistischen Revolutionärs sowie marxistischen Theoretikers basieren, und die den Marxismus an die historischen Bedingungen der Gesellschaft des russischen Zarenreichs anpasste
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Leninismus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-E-N-I-N-I-S-M-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.