Menschenkenntnis
[ˈmɛnʃn̩ˌkɛntnɪs]
The verdict
“Menschenkenntnis” is an uncommon German word, ranked #52,273 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #52,273
- frequency rank, German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fähigkeit, Menschen richtig beurteilen zu können
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Menschenkenntnis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɛnʃn̩ˌkɛntnɪs] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #52,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Menschenkenntnis” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Menschenkenntnis is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmɛnʃn̩ˌkɛntnɪs]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,273 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fähigkeit, Menschen richtig beurteilen zu können".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Menschenkenntnis, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Menschenkenntnis, spelled M-E-N-S-C-H-E-N-K-E-N-N-T-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Fähigkeit, Menschen richtig beurteilen zu können
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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 “Menschenkenntnis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-E-N-S-C-H-E-N-K-E-N-N-T-N-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.