Ekzem
[ɛkˈt͡seːm]
The verdict
“Ekzem” is uncommon German (frequency #64,223 among 57,060 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,223
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Eine Entzündung der Haut, die sich durch Rötung, Juckreiz und die Bildung von schuppigen oder verkrusteten, zeitweise Flüssigkeit ausscheidenden, Flecken bemerkbar macht.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ekzem |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛkˈt͡seːm] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ekzem” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Ekzem is uncommon German at frequency #64,223 among 57,060 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛkˈt͡seːm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Eine Entzündung der Haut, die sich durch Rötung, Juckreiz und die Bildung von schuppigen oder verkrusteten, zeitweise Flüssigkeit ausscheidenden, Flecken bemerkbar macht.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Ekzem in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Ekzem, spelled E-K-Z-E-M.
Definition
- 1Eine Entzündung der Haut, die sich durch Rötung, Juckreiz und die Bildung von schuppigen oder verkrusteten, zeitweise Flüssigkeit ausscheidenden, Flecken bemerkbar macht.
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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 “Ekzem”
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- The one correct German spelling is E-K-Z-E-M - 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.