Quiddität
[kvɪdiˈtɛːt]
The verdict
“Quiddität” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Wesen von etwas (Scholastik)
Corpus desk
Index DE-quidditat · Quiddität · German
Quiddität · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quiddität |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kvɪdiˈtɛːt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Quiddität“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Quiddität is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kvɪdiˈtɛːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das Wesen von etwas (Scholastik)".
Quiddität has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Quiddität, spelled Q-U-I-D-D-I-T-Ä-T.
Definition
- 1das Wesen von etwas (Scholastik)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Quiddität appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Erinnern wir uns der Trias der Schulphilosophie, die bei allem und jedem die Quiddität, die Qualität und die Quantität betrachtet, so wollen wir unsere These damit hier so interpretieren, daß bei allem und jedem neben den Fragen nach dem Was und dem Wie auch die Frage nach dem Wieviel sinnvoll ist.“
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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.