streng genommen

/[ˈʃtʁɛŋ ɡəˌnɔmən]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

streng genommen is aGermanphrase. It means: bei strenger Betrachtung; im Grunde genommen; eigentlich Pronounced [ˈʃtʁɛŋ ɡəˌnɔmən].

Key facts for streng genommen
PropertyValue
Headwordstreng genommen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈʃtʁɛŋ ɡəˌnɔmən]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for streng genommen is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtʁɛŋ ɡəˌnɔmən]. 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: "bei strenger Betrachtung; im Grunde genommen; eigentlich".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for streng genommen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 streng genommen, spelled S-T-R-E-N-G- -G-E-N-O-M-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    bei strenger Betrachtung; im Grunde genommen; eigentlich

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "streng genommen"?
"streng genommen" is spelled S-T-R-E-N-G- -G-E-N-O-M-M-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃtʁɛŋ ɡəˌnɔmən].
What does "streng genommen" mean?
As a phrase, "streng genommen" means: bei strenger Betrachtung; im Grunde genommen; eigentlich
How do you pronounce "streng genommen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "streng genommen" is [ˈʃtʁɛŋ ɡəˌnɔmən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "streng genommen" come from?
"streng genommen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.