Selfmademan
[ˈsɛlfmɛɪ̯tˌmɛn]
The verdict
“Selfmademan” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, welche sich aus eigener Kraft zu einer bedeutenden Persönlichkeit hochgearbeitet hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-selfmademan · Selfmademan · German
Selfmademan · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | Selfmademan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsɛlfmɛɪ̯tˌmɛn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Selfmademan“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Selfmademan is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈsɛlfmɛɪ̯tˌmɛn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, welche sich aus eigener Kraft zu einer bedeutenden Persönlichkeit hochgearbeitet hat".
No misspelling variants are generated for Selfmademan in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Selfmademan, spelled S-E-L-F-M-A-D-E-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Person, welche sich aus eigener Kraft zu einer bedeutenden Persönlichkeit hochgearbeitet hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Selfmademan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein typisch amerikanischer Selfmademan, der es im Laufe seines Lebens vom Schrotthändler zum globalen Investor bringen würde.“
„Hier entpuppte sich Stroud als Selfmademan.“
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.