Menschenkunde
[ˈmɛnʃn̩ˌkʊndə]
The verdict
“Menschenkunde” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wissenschaft oder Lehre vom Menschen
Corpus desk
Index DE-menschenkunde · Menschenkunde · German
Menschenkunde · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | Menschenkunde |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɛnʃn̩ˌkʊndə] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Menschenkunde“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Menschenkunde is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmɛnʃn̩ˌkʊndə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wissenschaft oder Lehre vom Menschen".
Menschenkunde doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Menschenkunde, spelled M-E-N-S-C-H-E-N-K-U-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Wissenschaft oder Lehre vom Menschen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Menschenkunde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Für Goethe hatte die indigene Bevölkerung in Mimik und Tanz »große Ähnlichkeit mit den Affen«. Immanuel Kant, der Königsberger Moralist, befand in seiner »Menschenkunde oder philosophischen Anthropologie« über die Ureinwohner kategorisch: »Das Volk der Amerikaner nimmt keine Bildung an.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.