Augentropfen
[ˈaʊ̯ɡŋ̍tʁɔp͡fən]
The verdict
“Augentropfen” is uncommon German (frequency #61,303 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,303
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine flüssige Darreichungsform von Arzneimitteln zum Tropfen in das Auge
Corpus desk
Index DE-augentropfen · Augentropfen · German
Augentropfen · rank #61,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,303
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Augapfel
Nearest frequency peer: Augapfel (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Augentropfen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Aufsichtsrä…
Aufsichtsräten
38,701 corpus weight
- aufstehe
aufstehe
38,700 corpus weight
- Augapfel
Augapfel
38,699 corpus weight
- Augentropfen
Augentropfen
38,698 corpus weight
- Augenwische…
Augenwischerei
38,697 corpus weight
- Ausbeuter
Ausbeuter
38,696 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Augentropfen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Augentropfen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯ɡŋ̍tʁɔp͡fən] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #61,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Augentropfen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Augentropfen is uncommon German at frequency #61,303 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈaʊ̯ɡŋ̍tʁɔp͡fən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine flüssige Darreichungsform von Arzneimitteln zum Tropfen in das Auge".
Augentropfen has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Augentropfen, spelled A-U-G-E-N-T-R-O-P-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine flüssige Darreichungsform von Arzneimitteln zum Tropfen in das Auge
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Augentropfen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei entzündeten Augen helfen manchmal Augentropfen.
„Wenn sich die Leute vom Stamm der Matis vor der Jagd selbstgefertigte drogenartige Augentropfen verabreichen, um besser zu sehen und mit dem Urwald eins zu sein, und dann einer mit Blasrohr und Giftpfeil einen kleinen Affen, der 30 Meter über ihm im Gehölz turnt, herunterholt, ist klar, warum man "Universum" sieht.“
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); 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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