Escherichia
[ɛʃəˈʁɪçi̯a]
The verdict
“Escherichia” is uncommon German (frequency #96,946 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,946
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Bakteriengattung mit vier vor allem im Boden, in Fäkalien und im Darm von Wirbeltieren (einschließlich des Menschen) vorkommenden Arten
Corpus desk
Index DE-escherichia · Escherichia · German
Escherichia · rank #96,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,946
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erwärmte
Nearest frequency peer: erwärmte (-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 „Escherichia“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- erweitertem
erweitertem
3,058 corpus weight
- erwählten
erwählten
3,057 corpus weight
- erwärmte
erwärmte
3,056 corpus weight
- Escherichia
Escherichia
3,055 corpus weight
- ethnographi…
ethnographische
3,054 corpus weight
- Ettenheim
Ettenheim
3,053 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Escherichia“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Escherichia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛʃəˈʁɪçi̯a] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Escherichia“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Escherichia is uncommon German at frequency #96,946 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛʃəˈʁɪçi̯a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Bakteriengattung mit vier vor allem im Boden, in Fäkalien und im Darm von Wirbeltieren (einschließlich des Menschen) vorkommenden Arten".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Escherichia, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Escherichia, spelled E-S-C-H-E-R-I-C-H-I-A.
Definition
- 1eine Bakteriengattung mit vier vor allem im Boden, in Fäkalien und im Darm von Wirbeltieren (einschließlich des Menschen) vorkommenden Arten
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Escherichia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die bekannteste Art der Gattung Escherichia ist das Bakterium Escherichia coli, oft auch kurz E. Coli genannt.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).