corium
The verdict
“corium” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - dicke Haut des Tiers; Fell, Haut, Balg
Corpus desk
Index DE-corium · corium · German
corium · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | corium |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „corium“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
corium is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for corium in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is corium, spelled C-O-R-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1dicke Haut des Tiers; Fell, Haut, Balg
- 2Haut des Menschen, die geprügelt wird; Leder
- 3abgezogene Haut des Tiers, die zu unterschiedlichen Zwecken genutzt wird; Haut
- 4gegerbte Tierhaut; Leder
- 5Haut, Schale, Hülse
- 6äußere Schicht von etwas; Überzug, Auftrag, Lage, Kruste
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how corium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„hoc quoque etiam mihi in mandatis is dedit / ut conquistores fierent histrionibus: / qui sibi mandasset delegati ut plauderent / quive quo placeret alter fecisset minus, / eius ornamenta et corium uti conciderent.“ (Plaut. Amph. prol. 81–85)
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.