Defibrillator
[defibʁɪˈlaːtoːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Defibrillator” is uncommon German (frequency #56,051 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,051
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gerät zur elektrischen Defibrillation zur Durchbrechung eines Kammerflimmerns und damit zur Wiederherstellung der Herzaktion bzw. Gerät zur kontrollierten Kardioversion zur Wiederherstellung eines ...
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Index DE-defibrillator · Defibrillator · German
Defibrillator · rank #56,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,051
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH darauffolgende
Nearest frequency peer: darauffolgende (-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 „Defibrillator“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Dandy
Dandy
43,953 corpus weight
- darauffolge…
darauffolgende
43,951 corpus weight
- Defibrillat…
Defibrillator
43,950 corpus weight
- Deklination
Deklination
43,949 corpus weight
- designierte
designierte
43,948 corpus weight
- Dezibel
Dezibel
43,947 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Defibrillator“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Defibrillator |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [defibʁɪˈlaːtoːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #56,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Defibrillator“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Defibrillator is uncommon German at frequency #56,051 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [defibʁɪˈlaːtoːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gerät zur elektrischen Defibrillation zur Durchbrechung eines Kammerflimmerns und damit zur Wiederherstellung der Herzaktion bzw. Gerät zur kontrollierten Kardioversion zur Wiederherstellung eines ...".
Defibrillator doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Defibrillator, spelled D-E-F-I-B-R-I-L-L-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Gerät zur elektrischen Defibrillation zur Durchbrechung eines Kammerflimmerns und damit zur Wiederherstellung der Herzaktion bzw. Gerät zur kontrollierten Kardioversion zur Wiederherstellung eines normalen Herzrhythmus bei tachykarden Rhythmusstörungen
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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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