Blutegel
[ˈbluːtˌʔeːɡl̩]
The verdict
“Blutegel” is uncommon German (frequency #50,337 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,337
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - im Wasser lebender Ringelwurm (Annelida) mit zwei Saugnäpfen
Corpus desk
Index DE-blutegel · Blutegel · German
Blutegel · rank #50,337 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,337
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bitterkeit
Nearest frequency peer: Bitterkeit (-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 „Blutegel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- biblischer
biblischer
49,667 corpus weight
- Biedermeier
Biedermeier
49,666 corpus weight
- Bitterkeit
Bitterkeit
49,665 corpus weight
- Blutegel
Blutegel
49,664 corpus weight
- BMBF
BMBF
49,663 corpus weight
- Bodenplatte
Bodenplatte
49,662 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Blutegel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blutegel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbluːtˌʔeːɡl̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Blutegel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Blutegel is uncommon German at frequency #50,337 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbluːtˌʔeːɡl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "im Wasser lebender Ringelwurm (Annelida) mit zwei Saugnäpfen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Blutegel in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Blutegel, spelled B-L-U-T-E-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1im Wasser lebender Ringelwurm (Annelida) mit zwei Saugnäpfen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Blutegel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Sümpfe waren voller Blutegel.
„Die viel zu großen Augen schienen sich daran festzusaugen wie Blutegel, als wollten sie das Bild fressen.“
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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