Elaiosom
[elaɪ̯oˈzoːm]
The verdict
“Elaiosom” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - kleines, fettreiches Teil am Samen von Pflanzen, deren Samen entweder durch Vögel oder durch Ameisen verbreitet werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Elaiosom |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [elaɪ̯oˈzoːm] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Elaiosom” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Elaiosom is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [elaɪ̯oˈzoːm]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "kleines, fettreiches Teil am Samen von Pflanzen, deren Samen entweder durch Vögel oder durch Ameisen verbreitet werden".
No misspelling variants are generated for Elaiosom in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 Elaiosom, spelled E-L-A-I-O-S-O-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1kleines, fettreiches Teil am Samen von Pflanzen, deren Samen entweder durch Vögel oder durch Ameisen verbreitet werden
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-L-A-I-O-S-O-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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