biotope

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The verdict

“biotope” is uncommon German (frequency #56,007 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,007
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Biotop

Corpus desk

Index DE-biotope · biotope · German

biotope · rank #56,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,007
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH biochemische

Nearest frequency peer: biochemische (-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 „biotope“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „biotope“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for biotope
PropertyValue
Headwordbiotope
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#56,007
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „biotope“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.biotopefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „biochemische“ (#56,006), „Blickwinkeln“ (#56,008), „blinzeln“ (#56,009). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „biotope“ bei #56,007. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

biotope is uncommon German at frequency #56,007 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Biotop".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for biotope, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is biotope, spelled B-I-O-T-O-P-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Biotop

This word in other languages

biotope(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "biotope"?
"biotope" is spelled B-I-O-T-O-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "biotope" mean?
As a noun, "biotope" means: Biotop
How do you pronounce "biotope"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "biotope", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bouquet#56,018Brescia#56,020Cadmium#56,030Beginns#55,978

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list