Hormontherapie
[hɔʁˈmoːnteʁaˌpiː]
The verdict
“Hormontherapie” is uncommon German (frequency #98,603 among 59,066 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,603
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Behandlung einer Krankheit oder eines Gesundheitsproblems mittels Hormonen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hormontherapie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hɔʁˈmoːnteʁaˌpiː] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #98,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hormontherapie” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hormontherapie is uncommon German at frequency #98,603 among 59,066 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [hɔʁˈmoːnteʁaˌpiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Behandlung einer Krankheit oder eines Gesundheitsproblems mittels Hormonen".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Hormontherapie, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 Hormontherapie, spelled H-O-R-M-O-N-T-H-E-R-A-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Behandlung einer Krankheit oder eines Gesundheitsproblems mittels Hormonen
Synonyms
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 “Hormontherapie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-O-R-M-O-N-T-H-E-R-A-P-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [hɔʁˈmoːnteʁaˌpiː] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.