meinerzeit
[ˈmaɪ̯nɐˌt͡saɪ̯t]
The verdict
“meinerzeit” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu meiner Zeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-meinerzeit · meinerzeit · German
meinerzeit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meinerzeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈmaɪ̯nɐˌt͡saɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „meinerzeit“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
meinerzeit is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed [ˈmaɪ̯nɐˌt͡saɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zu meiner Zeit".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for meinerzeit, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct German form is meinerzeit, spelled M-E-I-N-E-R-Z-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1zu meiner Zeit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meinerzeit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meinerzeit (= zu meiner Zeit als Student) war das Studium noch gebührenfrei.
„Würde ich meiner alten Mutter ihre Geschichte erzählen, käme todsicher auch heute noch eine Belehrung über die Gefahren der Welt heraus, in die man so ein junges Ding nie hätte ziehen lassen dürfen. Und Karriereratschläge, die meinerzeit auf die Beamtenlaufbahn zielten.“
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