Biopsie
[biɔˈpsiː]
The verdict
“Biopsie” is uncommon German (frequency #67,054 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,054
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entnahme und Untersuchung von Gewebematerial, einer Gewebeprobe, aus einem lebenden Organismus
Corpus desk
Index DE-biopsie · Biopsie · German
Biopsie · rank #67,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,054
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bildungsstand
Nearest frequency peer: Bildungsstand (-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 „Biopsie“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- bildest
bildest
32,950 corpus weight
- Bildungsang…
Bildungsangebot
32,949 corpus weight
- Bildungssta…
Bildungsstand
32,948 corpus weight
- Biopsie
Biopsie
32,947 corpus weight
- Blaskapelle
Blaskapelle
32,945 corpus weight
- Blutergüsse
Blutergüsse
32,944 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Biopsie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Biopsie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [biɔˈpsiː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Biopsie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Biopsie is uncommon German at frequency #67,054 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [biɔˈpsiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Entnahme und Untersuchung von Gewebematerial, einer Gewebeprobe, aus einem lebenden Organismus".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Biopsie, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Biopsie, spelled B-I-O-P-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Entnahme und Untersuchung von Gewebematerial, einer Gewebeprobe, aus einem lebenden Organismus
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Biopsie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Erstmals spüre ich tiefe Angst. Ein mir bekannter Urologe rät noch von einer Biopsie ab. Ein gutes Jahr vergeht; 2006 ist der Wert auf 3,6 gestiegen.“
„Weil durch das Kernspinntomogramm die Art des Tumors nicht zu ermitteln war, musste Herman im Juni 1988 eine schmerzhafte Biopsie über sich ergehen lassen, bei der ein Loch in die Schädeldecke gebohrt und eine Probe des Tumorgewebes entnommen wurde.“
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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