Pleonasmus
German, noun[pleoˈnasmʊs]
Pleonasmus is spelled P-L-E-O-N-A-S-M-U-S (10 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 211,221st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pleonasmus is a German masculine noun meaning “pleonasm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Verbindung bedeutungsgleicher oder -verwandter Ausdrücke (aber im Gegensatz zur Tautologie verschiedener…”.
What does Pleonasmus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepleonasm
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Verbindung bedeutungsgleicher oder -verwandter Ausdrücke (aber im Gegensatz zur Tautologie verschiedener Wortart) in einer Wortgruppe
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Pleonasmus
- Pleonasmen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Pleonasmus?
- [pleoˈnasmʊs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Pleonasmus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Pleonasmus in German?
Pleonasmus appears about once in every 14 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).