chiral
[çiˈʁaːl]
The verdict
“chiral” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in zueinander spiegelbildlichen Formen vorkommend
Corpus desk
Index DE-chiral · chiral · German
chiral · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiral |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [çiˈʁaːl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „chiral“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
chiral is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [çiˈʁaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in zueinander spiegelbildlichen Formen vorkommend".
chiral has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 chiral, spelled C-H-I-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1in zueinander spiegelbildlichen Formen vorkommend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chiral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein Molekül ist chiral, wenn es weder eine Symmetrieebene σ noch ein Symmetriezentrum i (i von Inversion) aufweist.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.