Menschenkenntnis
[ˈmɛnʃn̩ˌkɛntnɪs]
The verdict
“Menschenkenntnis” is uncommon German (frequency #52,273 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,273
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fähigkeit, Menschen richtig beurteilen zu können
Corpus desk
Index DE-menschenkenntnis · Menschenkenntnis · German
Menschenkenntnis · rank #52,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,273
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Melitta
Nearest frequency peer: Melitta (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Menschenkenntnis“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Martine
Martine
47,733 corpus weight
- Medizinprod…
Medizinprodukte
47,730 corpus weight
- Melitta
Melitta
47,729 corpus weight
- Menschenken…
Menschenkenntnis
47,728 corpus weight
- Metzingen
Metzingen
47,727 corpus weight
- Minirock
Minirock
47,724 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Menschenkenntnis“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Menschenkenntnis“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Menschenkenntnis is uncommon German at frequency #52,273 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmɛnʃn̩ˌkɛntnɪs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Menschenkenntnis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wer eine gute Menschenkenntnis besitzt, lässt sich nicht leicht übers Ohr hauen.
„Menschenkenntnis erwirbt er sich vor allem durch seine Reisebekanntschaften.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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