Alkaloid
[alkaloˈiːt]
The verdict
“Alkaloid” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - organische, stickstoffhaltige und meist alkalische natürlich vorkommende Verbindungen
Corpus desk
Index DE-alkaloid · Alkaloid · German
Alkaloid · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | Alkaloid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alkaloˈiːt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Alkaloid“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Alkaloid is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [alkaloˈiːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "organische, stickstoffhaltige und meist alkalische natürlich vorkommende Verbindungen".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Alkaloid, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 Alkaloid, spelled A-L-K-A-L-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1organische, stickstoffhaltige und meist alkalische natürlich vorkommende Verbindungen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Alkaloid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Chemisch sind die Alkaloide nicht einheitlich definiert. Sie enthalten ein oder mehrere meist heterozyklisch eingebaute Stickstoffatome, haben allerdings kein charakteristisches Strukturelement.“
This word in other languages
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.