Endemie
[ɛndeˈmiː]
The verdict
“Endemie” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gehäuftes Auftreten einer Krankheit, das regional begrenzt, aber zeitlich unbegrenzt ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-endemie · Endemie · German
Endemie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 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 | Endemie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛndeˈmiː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Endemie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Endemie is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛndeˈmiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gehäuftes Auftreten einer Krankheit, das regional begrenzt, aber zeitlich unbegrenzt ist".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Endemie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Endemie, spelled E-N-D-E-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1gehäuftes Auftreten einer Krankheit, das regional begrenzt, aber zeitlich unbegrenzt ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Endemie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diese immer wieder aufflammende Seuche bezeichnet man als Endemie, weil sie alleine auf das nördliche Äthiopien begrenzt war.
Synonyms
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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.