Eiter
[ˈaɪ̯tɐ]
The verdict
“Eiter” is uncommon German (frequency #56,081 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,081
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiß-gelbliche Körperflüssigkeit, die sich bei Entzündungen bildet
Corpus desk
Index DE-eiter · Eiter · German
Eiter · rank #56,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,081
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH einzuberufen
Nearest frequency peer: einzuberufen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Eiter”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- einstündigen
einstündigen
43,923 corpus weight
- Einzelkind
Einzelkind
43,922 corpus weight
- einzuberufen
einzuberufen
43,921 corpus weight
- Eiter
Eiter
43,920 corpus weight
- elitär
elitär
43,918 corpus weight
- Ellipse
Ellipse
43,917 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Eiter” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eiter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯tɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Eiter” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Eiter is uncommon German at frequency #56,081 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈaɪ̯tɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "weiß-gelbliche Körperflüssigkeit, die sich bei Entzündungen bildet".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Eiter, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Eiter, spelled E-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1weiß-gelbliche Körperflüssigkeit, die sich bei Entzündungen bildet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Eiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Produktion von Eiter schützt den Körper vor negativen Folgen von Entzündungen.
„Es roch draußen nach Bohnerwachs und Eiter.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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