Tautologie
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#87,133
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Tautologie is aGermannoun. It means: Wiederholung gleichbedeutender Wörter derselben Wortart, zum Beispiel schon bereits, immer und ewig, Gangsterbande im Gegensatz zum Pleonasmus mit gleichbedeutenden Wörtern verschiedener Wortart Pronounced [ˌtaʊ̯toloˈɡiː].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tautologie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌtaʊ̯toloˈɡiː] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Tautologie is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌtaʊ̯toloˈɡiː]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,133 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Tautologie 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 Tautologie, spelled T-A-U-T-O-L-O-G-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Wiederholung gleichbedeutender Wörter derselben Wortart, zum Beispiel schon bereits, immer und ewig, Gangsterbande im Gegensatz zum Pleonasmus mit gleichbedeutenden Wörtern verschiedener Wortart
- 2Aussage, die aus formalen Gründen immer wahr ist, unabhängig von den Wahrheitswerten der in ihr vorkommenden Variablen
- 3Aussage, bei der das Gemeinte doppelt ausgedrückt wird
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Frequency rank: #87,133 in German
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