Defibrillator
[defibʁɪˈlaːtoːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Defibrillator” is uncommon German (frequency #56,051 among 45,632 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,051
- frequency rank, German
- 45,632
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gerät zur elektrischen Defibrillation zur Durchbrechung eines Kammerflimmerns und damit zur Wiederherstellung der Herzaktion bzw. Gerät zur kontrollierten Kardioversion zur Wiederherstellung eines ...
| 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) |
Where “Defibrillator” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Defibrillator is uncommon German at frequency #56,051 among 45,632 “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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Using “Defibrillator”
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- The one correct German spelling is D-E-F-I-B-R-I-L-L-A-T-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.