Nepotismus

/[nepoˈtɪsmʊs]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

Nepotismus is aGermannoun. It means: Vetternwirtschaft, ungerechtfertigte Begünstigung von Verwandten (z. B. bei Stellenbesetzungen) Pronounced [nepoˈtɪsmʊs].

Key facts for Nepotismus
PropertyValue
HeadwordNepotismus
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[nepoˈtɪsmʊs]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Nepotismus is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Nepotismus is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [nepoˈtɪsmʊs]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Vetternwirtschaft, ungerechtfertigte Begünstigung von Verwandten (z. B. bei Stellenbesetzungen)".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Nepotismus in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Nepotismus, spelled N-E-P-O-T-I-S-M-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vetternwirtschaft, ungerechtfertigte Begünstigung von Verwandten (z. B. bei Stellenbesetzungen)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Nepotismus"?
"Nepotismus" is spelled N-E-P-O-T-I-S-M-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is [nepoˈtɪsmʊs].
What does "Nepotismus" mean?
As a noun, "Nepotismus" means: Vetternwirtschaft, ungerechtfertigte Begünstigung von Verwandten (z. B. bei Stellenbesetzungen)
How do you pronounce "Nepotismus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Nepotismus" is [nepoˈtɪsmʊs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Nepotismus" come from?
"Nepotismus" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.