Eubakterium
[ɔɪ̯bakˈteːʁiʊm]
The verdict
“Eubakterium” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Vertreter der echten Bakterien (vgl. [2])
Corpus desk
Index DE-eubakterium · Eubakterium · German
Eubakterium · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | Eubakterium |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔɪ̯bakˈteːʁiʊm] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Eubakterium“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Eubakterium is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɔɪ̯bakˈteːʁiʊm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Eubakterium in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Eubakterium, spelled E-U-B-A-K-T-E-R-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1ein Vertreter der echten Bakterien (vgl. [2])
- 2nicht mehr aktuelle Bezeichnung für das Reich der (im Gegensatz zu den Archaebakterien) echten Bakterien, die im aktuellen Drei-Domänen-System unter der Domäne der Bacteria bzw. „Bakterien“ geführt werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Eubakterium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein erst vor wenigen Jahren publiziertes Szenario […] erklärt die Entstehung der ersten eukaryotischen Zelle auf der Grundlage ökologisch-biochemischer Zwänge und ihrer Überwindung durch lateralen Gentransfer vom Eubakterium hin zum Genom des Archaeon. […] Im Sinne Mereschkowskys stellt darin das Eubakterium den Endosymbionten, das Archaeon den Wirt dar.“
„Hierbei scheinen phylogenetische Distanzen fast keine Rolle zu spielen: Im Genom des Eubakteriums Thermotoga maritima sind 25% aller Gene offensichtlich archaebakteriellen Ursprunges, […]“
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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.