IgM

/[…]/ abbrev

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#60,687

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

IgM is anGermanabbrev. It means: Immunglobulin M, Typ von Antikörper (zur Abwehr von Krankheitserregern), der im Blut nachgewiesen werden kann Pronounced […].

Key facts for IgM
PropertyValue
HeadwordIgM
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbrev
IPA[…]
Letters3
Frequency rank#60,687
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of IgM in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for IgM is 3 letters long, classified as anabbrev, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,687 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Immunglobulin M, Typ von Antikörper (zur Abwehr von Krankheitserregern), der im Blut nachgewiesen werden kann".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for IgM in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is IgM, spelled I-G-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Immunglobulin M, Typ von Antikörper (zur Abwehr von Krankheitserregern), der im Blut nachgewiesen werden kann

Antonyms

Frequency rank: #60,687 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "IgM"?
"IgM" is spelled I-G-M. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "IgM" mean?
As an abbrev, "IgM" means: Immunglobulin M, Typ von Antikörper (zur Abwehr von Krankheitserregern), der im Blut nachgewiesen werden kann
How do you pronounce "IgM"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "IgM" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "IgM" come from?
"IgM" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.