offenes Geheimnis
The verdict
“offenes Geheimnis” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: allgemein bekannte Tatsache, die offiziell bestritten wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | offenes Geheimnis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɔfənəs ɡəˈhaɪ̯mnɪs] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “offenes Geheimnis” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for offenes Geheimnis is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɔfənəs ɡəˈhaɪ̯mnɪs]. 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: "allgemein bekannte Tatsache, die offiziell bestritten wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for offenes Geheimnis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 offenes Geheimnis, spelled O-F-F-E-N-E-S- -G-E-H-E-I-M-N-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1allgemein bekannte Tatsache, die offiziell bestritten wird
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- The one correct German spelling is O-F-F-E-N-E-S- -G-E-H-E-I-M-N-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈɔfənəs ɡəˈhaɪ̯mnɪs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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