Adenom
[adeˈnoːm]
The verdict
“Adenom” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine meist gutartige vom Drüsenepithel zum Beispiel des Dickdarms ausgehende Geschwulst
Corpus desk
Index DE-adenom · Adenom · German
Adenom · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" 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 | Adenom |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [adeˈnoːm] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Adenom“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Adenom is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [adeˈnoːm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine meist gutartige vom Drüsenepithel zum Beispiel des Dickdarms ausgehende Geschwulst".
Adenom doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Adenom, spelled A-D-E-N-O-M.
Definition
- 1eine meist gutartige vom Drüsenepithel zum Beispiel des Dickdarms ausgehende Geschwulst
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Adenom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Karzinome in pleomorphen Adenomen sind Tumoren, die sichere Malignitätskriterien wie zytologische und histologische Anaplasie, abnorme Mitosen sowie infiltratives Wachstum zeigen […].“
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.