merkwürdigerweise
German, adverb/ˈmɛʁkvʏʁdɪɡɐˌvaɪ̯zə/
merkwürdigerweise is spelled M-E-R-K-W-Ü-R-D-I-G-E-R-W-E-I-S-E (17 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 49,558th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Merkwürdigerweise is a German adverb meaning “strangely enough, curiously enough, oddly enough” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “merkwürdig erscheinend”.
What does merkwürdigerweise mean in English?
adverb
- 1
strangely enough, curiously enough, oddly enough
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. merkwürdig erscheinend
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce merkwürdigerweise?
- /ˈmɛʁkvʏʁdɪɡɐˌvaɪ̯zə/
- [ˈmɛʁkvʏʁdɪɡɐˌvaɪ̯zə]
- [ˌmɛʁkvʏʁdɪɡɐˈvaɪ̯zə]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is merkwürdigerweise in German?
merkwürdigerweise appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).