bipolar
[bipoˈlaːɐ̯]
The verdict
“bipolar” is uncommon German (frequency #76,587 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,587
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zwei Pole habend; die Eigenschaften zweier sich gegenüberliegender Pole habend
Corpus desk
Index DE-bipolar · bipolar · German
bipolar · rank #76,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,587
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Blasinstrumen…
Nearest frequency peer: Blasinstrumente (+2 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 „bipolar“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bibliotheka…
Bibliothekare
23,418 corpus weight
- bipolar
bipolar
23,414 corpus weight
- Blasinstrum…
Blasinstrumente
23,412 corpus weight
- blinkende
blinkende
23,411 corpus weight
- blinkenden
blinkenden
23,410 corpus weight
- Blitzeinsch…
Blitzeinschlag
23,409 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bipolar“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bipolar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bipoˈlaːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bipolar“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bipolar is uncommon German at frequency #76,587 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [bipoˈlaːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zwei Pole habend; die Eigenschaften zweier sich gegenüberliegender Pole habend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bipolar, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 bipolar, spelled B-I-P-O-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1zwei Pole habend; die Eigenschaften zweier sich gegenüberliegender Pole habend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bipolar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Beide Elektroden werden meist in einem chirurgischen Instrument vereinigt, d. h. sie sind als bipolares Schneide- oder Koagulationswerkzeug, wie z. B. eine Pinzette mit gegeneinander isolierten Schenkeln, ausgeführt.“
„Kleine Parteien blieben in dieser Phase marginalisiert, die Zahl der relevanten Parteien nahm nach 1958 ab. Es bildete sich eine eindeutig bipolare Struktur ohne große Anti-System-Parteien heraus.“
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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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