quod erat demonstrandum

/[kvɔt ˈeːʁat demɔnˈstʁandʊm]/ phrase

Letters

23 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

quod erat demonstrandum is aGermanphrase. It means: traditioneller Abschluss für Beweise mit der Bedeutung „was zu beweisen war“ Pronounced [kvɔt ˈeːʁat demɔnˈstʁandʊm].

Key facts for quod erat demonstrandum
PropertyValue
Headwordquod erat demonstrandum
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[kvɔt ˈeːʁat demɔnˈstʁandʊm]
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quod erat demonstrandum is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for quod erat demonstrandum is 23 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kvɔt ˈeːʁat demɔnˈstʁandʊm]. 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: "traditioneller Abschluss für Beweise mit der Bedeutung „was zu beweisen war“".

No misspelling variants are generated for quod erat demonstrandum 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 quod erat demonstrandum, spelled Q-U-O-D- -E-R-A-T- -D-E-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-N-D-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    traditioneller Abschluss für Beweise mit der Bedeutung „was zu beweisen war“

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quod erat demonstrandum"?
"quod erat demonstrandum" is spelled Q-U-O-D- -E-R-A-T- -D-E-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-N-D-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is [kvɔt ˈeːʁat demɔnˈstʁandʊm].
What does "quod erat demonstrandum" mean?
As a phrase, "quod erat demonstrandum" means: traditioneller Abschluss für Beweise mit der Bedeutung „was zu beweisen war“
How do you pronounce "quod erat demonstrandum"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quod erat demonstrandum" is [kvɔt ˈeːʁat demɔnˈstʁandʊm]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quod erat demonstrandum" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.