kongenital
[kɔŋɡeniˈtaːl]
The verdict
“kongenital” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bereits bei der Geburt bestehend
Corpus desk
Index DE-kongenital · kongenital · German
kongenital · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" 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 | kongenital |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kɔŋɡeniˈtaːl] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „kongenital“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
kongenital is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kɔŋɡeniˈtaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "bereits bei der Geburt bestehend".
No generated misspelling entries exist for kongenital in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is kongenital, spelled K-O-N-G-E-N-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1bereits bei der Geburt bestehend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kongenital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In England werden die kongenitalen Röteln seit 1990 durch die entsprechende "British Paediatric Surveillance Unit" erfasst.
Das kongenitale Schielsyndrom […] ist eine angeborene Erkrankung der Augenbewegung, die aus einem umfangreichen Symptomkomplex besteht.
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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.