Opportunist
Letters
11 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Opportunist is aGermannoun. It means: jemand, der dem Opportunismus folgt, sich also der jeweiligen Lage anpasst, auch in ideologischer Hinsicht (dort negativ gewertet) Pronounced [ˌɔpɔʁtuˈnɪst].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Opportunist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌɔpɔʁtuˈnɪst] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Opportunist is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌɔpɔʁtuˈnɪst]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Opportunist 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 Opportunist, spelled O-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-I-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemand, der dem Opportunismus folgt, sich also der jeweiligen Lage anpasst, auch in ideologischer Hinsicht (dort negativ gewertet)
- 2ein Erreger, der nur aufgrund besonderer Umstände zu einer Krankheit führt
- 3Anlegertyp, der Trends für seine Kapitalanlageentscheidungen nutzt
- 4Anhänger einer Strömung in der Arbeiterbewegung, dessen Haltung aus ideologischer Sicht bürgerliche/kapitalistische Einflüsse widerspiegelt, Anhänger des Opportunismus
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