Encephalon
[ɛnˈt͡seːfalɔn]
The verdict
“Encephalon” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Gehirn
Corpus desk
Index DE-encephalon · Encephalon · German
Encephalon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Encephalon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛnˈt͡seːfalɔn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Encephalon“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Encephalon is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛnˈt͡seːfalɔn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das Gehirn".
Encephalon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct German form is Encephalon, spelled E-N-C-E-P-H-A-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1das Gehirn
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.