Ekliptik
[ɛkˈlɪptɪk]
The verdict
“Ekliptik” is uncommon German (frequency #87,642 among 57,060 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,642
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - der Großkreis, in dem die Ebene der Bahn der Erde die Himmelskugel schneidet sowie die kreisförmige Bahn, die die Sonne im Verlaufe eines Jahres beschreibt; Projektionen des Verlaufes der Sonne am ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ekliptik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛkˈlɪptɪk] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ekliptik” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Ekliptik is uncommon German at frequency #87,642 among 57,060 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛkˈlɪptɪk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Großkreis, in dem die Ebene der Bahn der Erde die Himmelskugel schneidet sowie die kreisförmige Bahn, die die Sonne im Verlaufe eines Jahres beschreibt; Projektionen des Verlaufes der Sonne am ...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ekliptik, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Ekliptik, spelled E-K-L-I-P-T-I-K.
Definition
- 1der Großkreis, in dem die Ebene der Bahn der Erde die Himmelskugel schneidet sowie die kreisförmige Bahn, die die Sonne im Verlaufe eines Jahres beschreibt; Projektionen des Verlaufes der Sonne am Himmel und des Verlaufes der Erde um die Sonne
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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 “Ekliptik”
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- The one correct German spelling is E-K-L-I-P-T-I-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.