Eukalyptus
[ɔɪ̯kaˈlʏptʊs]
The verdict
“Eukalyptus” is uncommon German (frequency #81,519 among 57,060 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,519
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - immergrüner, schnellwüchsiger Baum, ursprünglich in Australien beheimatet
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eukalyptus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔɪ̯kaˈlʏptʊs] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Eukalyptus” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Eukalyptus is uncommon German at frequency #81,519 among 57,060 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɔɪ̯kaˈlʏptʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Eukalyptus, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Eukalyptus, spelled E-U-K-A-L-Y-P-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1immergrüner, schnellwüchsiger Baum, ursprünglich in Australien beheimatet
- 2Eukalyptusöl, das Öl des gleichnamigen Baums
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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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Using “Eukalyptus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-U-K-A-L-Y-P-T-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.