Diabetes
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Diabetes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [diaˈbeːtɛs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Diabetes 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)
- 2Diabetes mellitus: Stoffwechselerkrankung, bei der eine gesteigerte Unempfindlichkeit gegenüber Insulin besteht (sogenannter Diabetes mellitus Typ 2 oder Typ-2-Diabetes oder Altersdiabetes)
- 3Diabetes insipidus: Erkrankung, die durch vermehrte Urinausscheidung und gesteigertes Durstgefühl charakterisiert ist
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"
Frequency rank: #8,191 in German
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