apoplexia
[əpupɫəˈksiə]
The verdict
“apoplexia” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Schlaganfall
Corpus desk
Index DE-apoplexia · apoplexia · German
apoplexia · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | apoplexia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [əpupɫəˈksiə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „apoplexia“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
apoplexia is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [əpupɫəˈksiə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Schlaganfall".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for apoplexia, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 apoplexia, spelled A-P-O-P-L-E-X-I-A.
Definition
- 1der Schlaganfall
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.