Ekzem
[ɛkˈt͡seːm]
The verdict
“Ekzem” is uncommon German (frequency #64,223 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,223
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eine Entzündung der Haut, die sich durch Rötung, Juckreiz und die Bildung von schuppigen oder verkrusteten, zeitweise Flüssigkeit ausscheidenden, Flecken bemerkbar macht.
Corpus desk
Index DE-ekzem · Ekzem · German
Ekzem · rank #64,223 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,223
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH eklatanten
Nearest frequency peer: eklatanten (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Ekzem“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Eises
Eises
35,782 corpus weight
- eiskalter
eiskalter
35,781 corpus weight
- Eisprung
Eisprung
35,780 corpus weight
- eklatanten
eklatanten
35,779 corpus weight
- Ekzem
Ekzem
35,778 corpus weight
- Emmentaler
Emmentaler
35,775 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ekzem“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ekzem“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ekzem is uncommon German at frequency #64,223 among 4,632 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ekzem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er hatte ein ekliges Ekzem auf dem Arm.
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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