Antigen
[ˌantiˈɡeːn]
The verdict
“Antigen” is an uncommon German word, ranked #55,125 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #55,125
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Stoff, meist Eiweiß, der im Körper die Bildung von spezifischen Antikörpern hervorruft
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Antigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌantiˈɡeːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Antigen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Antigen is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌantiˈɡeːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,125 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Stoff, meist Eiweiß, der im Körper die Bildung von spezifischen Antikörpern hervorruft".
Antigen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Antigen, spelled A-N-T-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Stoff, meist Eiweiß, der im Körper die Bildung von spezifischen Antikörpern hervorruft
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Antigen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-N-T-I-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌantiˈɡeːn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.