Allergen
[ˌalɛʁˈɡeːn]
The verdict
“Allergen” 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) - ein Stoff, welcher bei manchen Menschen eine allergische Reaktion auslöst
Corpus desk
Index DE-allergen · Allergen · German
Allergen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | Allergen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌalɛʁˈɡeːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Allergen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Allergen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌalɛʁˈɡeːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Stoff, welcher bei manchen Menschen eine allergische Reaktion auslöst".
Zero misspellings are on record for Allergen in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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 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. The correct German form is Allergen, spelled A-L-L-E-R-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1ein Stoff, welcher bei manchen Menschen eine allergische Reaktion auslöst
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Allergen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Als Allergene kommen, neben fast allen Medikamenten, hauptsächlich Milch, Eier, Fisch, Obst und Hülsenfrüchte in Betracht.
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.