Gastritis

[ɡasˈtʁiːtɪs]

/[ɡasˈtʁiːtɪs]/ noun

The verdict

“Gastritis” is uncommon German (frequency #79,181 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,181
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - meist mit Bauchschmerzen einhergehende Entzündung der Schleimhautschicht des Magens

Corpus desk

Index DE-gastritis · Gastritis · German

Gastritis · rank #79,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,181
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH Gaue

Nearest frequency peer: Gaue (+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 „Gastritis“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gastritis“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Gastritis
PropertyValue
HeadwordGastritis
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ɡasˈtʁiːtɪs]
Letters9
Frequency rank#79,181
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Gastritis“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Gastritisfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Gaue“ (#79,182), „Gangstern“ (#79,178), „gebuchten“ (#79,184). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „Gastritis“ bei #79,181. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Gastritis is uncommon German at frequency #79,181 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡasˈtʁiːtɪs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "meist mit Bauchschmerzen einhergehende Entzündung der Schleimhautschicht des Magens".

No misspelling variants are generated for Gastritis in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Gastritis, spelled G-A-S-T-R-I-T-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    meist mit Bauchschmerzen einhergehende Entzündung der Schleimhautschicht des Magens

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Gastritis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Wenn in Ostia an heißen Tagen 20 000 Menschen ins Wasser steigen, riskieren statistisch 600 wegen der Wasserverschmutzung eine Gastritis.“
  2. „Helicobacter-Infektionen gelten vor allem als Ursache von Gastritis, Magen- und Dünndarmgeschwüren; zunehmend werden die Mikroben jedoch auch für die Entstehung der Malt-Lymphome in der Magenschleimhaut verantwortlich gemacht.“

Synonyms

MagenkatarrhMagenentzündungMagenschleimhautentzündung

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Gastritis"?
"Gastritis" is spelled G-A-S-T-R-I-T-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡasˈtʁiːtɪs].
What does "Gastritis" mean?
As a noun, "Gastritis" means: meist mit Bauchschmerzen einhergehende Entzündung der Schleimhautschicht des Magens
How do you pronounce "Gastritis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Gastritis" is [ɡasˈtʁiːtɪs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gastritis", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list