magisches Denken

/[ˌmaːɡɪʃəs ˈdɛŋkn̩]/ phrase

Letters

16 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

magisches Denken is aGermanphrase. It means: Denkweise, bei der eine Person annimmt, dass nicht kausal zusammenhängende Ereignisse miteinander verbunden sind, obwohl kein plausibler Kausalzusammenhang besteht Pronounced [ˌmaːɡɪʃəs ˈdɛŋkn̩].

Key facts for magisches Denken
PropertyValue
Headwordmagisches Denken
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌmaːɡɪʃəs ˈdɛŋkn̩]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

magisches Denken is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for magisches Denken is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌmaːɡɪʃəs ˈdɛŋkn̩]. 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: "Denkweise, bei der eine Person annimmt, dass nicht kausal zusammenhängende Ereignisse miteinander verbunden sind, obwohl kein plausibler Kausalzusammenhang besteht".

No misspelling variants are generated for magisches Denken 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 magisches Denken, spelled M-A-G-I-S-C-H-E-S- -D-E-N-K-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Denkweise, bei der eine Person annimmt, dass nicht kausal zusammenhängende Ereignisse miteinander verbunden sind, obwohl kein plausibler Kausalzusammenhang besteht

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "magisches Denken"?
"magisches Denken" is spelled M-A-G-I-S-C-H-E-S- -D-E-N-K-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌmaːɡɪʃəs ˈdɛŋkn̩].
What does "magisches Denken" mean?
As a phrase, "magisches Denken" means: Denkweise, bei der eine Person annimmt, dass nicht kausal zusammenhängende Ereignisse miteinander verbunden sind, obwohl kein plausibler Kausalzusammenhang besteht
How do you pronounce "magisches Denken"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "magisches Denken" is [ˌmaːɡɪʃəs ˈdɛŋkn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "magisches Denken" come from?
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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.