Pluralis Auctoris
[pluˌʁaːlɪs ʔaʊ̯kˈtoːʁɪs]
The verdict
“Pluralis Auctoris” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Verwendung des Plurals durch eine Person, die dabei nur von sich selbst spricht und den Plural verwendet, um ihre Hörer oder Leser in ihren Gedankengang einzubeziehen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pluralis Auctoris |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pluˌʁaːlɪs ʔaʊ̯kˈtoːʁɪs] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pluralis Auctoris” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Pluralis Auctoris is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pluˌʁaːlɪs ʔaʊ̯kˈtoːʁɪs]. 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: "Verwendung des Plurals durch eine Person, die dabei nur von sich selbst spricht und den Plural verwendet, um ihre Hörer oder Leser in ihren Gedankengang einzubeziehen.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Pluralis Auctoris 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 Pluralis Auctoris, spelled P-L-U-R-A-L-I-S- -A-U-C-T-O-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Verwendung des Plurals durch eine Person, die dabei nur von sich selbst spricht und den Plural verwendet, um ihre Hörer oder Leser in ihren Gedankengang einzubeziehen.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is P-L-U-R-A-L-I-S- -A-U-C-T-O-R-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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