Diabetes

/[diaˈbeːtɛs]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,191

in German word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Diabetes is aGermannoun. It means: Diabetes mellitus: Stoffwechselerkrankung, charakterisiert durch verminderte beziehungsweise fehlende Bildung von Insulin sowie durch vermehrte Urinausscheidung und gesteigertes Durstgefühl, die un... Pronounced [diaˈbeːtɛs]. It ranks #8,191 in German word frequency.

Key facts for Diabetes
PropertyValue
HeadwordDiabetes
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[diaˈbeːtɛs]
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,191
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Diabetes in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Diabetes is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diaˈbeːtɛs]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,191 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Diabetes, with forms such as "daibetes", "ddiabetes", and "diabbetes". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Diabetes, spelled D-I-A-B-E-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Diabetes mellitus: Stoffwechselerkrankung, charakterisiert durch verminderte beziehungsweise fehlende Bildung von Insulin sowie durch vermehrte Urinausscheidung und gesteigertes Durstgefühl, die unbehandelt schnell zum Tode führt; Autoimmunerkrankung (sogenannter Diabetes mellitus Typ 1 oder Typ-1-Diabetes oder juveniler Diabetes)
  2. 2
    Diabetes mellitus: Stoffwechselerkrankung, bei der eine gesteigerte Unempfindlichkeit gegenüber Insulin besteht (sogenannter Diabetes mellitus Typ 2 oder Typ-2-Diabetes oder Altersdiabetes)
  3. 3
    Diabetes insipidus: Erkrankung, die durch vermehrte Urinausscheidung und gesteigertes Durstgefühl charakterisiert ist

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: daibetes,ddiabetes,diabbetes,diabeets,diabetess,diabetse,diabettes,diabtees,diaebtes,dibaetes,idabetes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Diabetes

Misspelling Variants of "Diabetes"

daibetes8ddiabetes9diabbetes9diabeets8diabetess9diabetse8diabettes9diabtees8
Misspelling Variants of "Diabetes"

Frequency rank: #8,191 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Diabetes"?
"Diabetes" is spelled D-I-A-B-E-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [diaˈbeːtɛs].
What does "Diabetes" mean?
As a noun, "Diabetes" means: Diabetes mellitus: Stoffwechselerkrankung, charakterisiert durch verminderte beziehungsweise fehlende Bildung von Insulin sowie durch vermehrte Urinausscheidung und gesteigertes Durstgefühl, die un...
What are common misspellings of "Diabetes"?
Common misspellings include "daibetes", "ddiabetes", "diabbetes", "diabeets", "diabetess". The correct spelling is "Diabetes".
How do you pronounce "Diabetes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Diabetes" is [diaˈbeːtɛs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Diabetes" come from?
"Diabetes" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.