Krebstherapie

[ˈkʁeːpsteʁaˌpiː]

/[ˈkʁeːpsteʁaˌpiː]/ noun

The verdict

“Krebstherapie” is uncommon German (frequency #69,434 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,434
frequency rank, German
4,158
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - therapeutische Maßnahme, zur Behandlung einer Krebserkrankung

Corpus desk

Index DE-krebstherapie · Krebstherapie · German

Krebstherapie · rank #69,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,434
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,158
  • PHOTO-FINISH Krasnodar

Nearest frequency peer: Krasnodar (-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 „Krebstherapie“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Krebstherapie
PropertyValue
HeadwordKrebstherapie
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkʁeːpsteʁaˌpiː]
Letters13
Frequency rank#69,434
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Krebstherapie“ im Deutschen

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

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

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Krasnodar“ (#69,433), „kreisförmige“ (#69,435), „krabbelt“ (#69,432). Unter 4,158 „K“-Lemmata liegt „Krebstherapie“ bei #69,434. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Krebstherapie is uncommon German at frequency #69,434 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkʁeːpsteʁaˌpiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "therapeutische Maßnahme, zur Behandlung einer Krebserkrankung".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Krebstherapie, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Krebstherapie, spelled K-R-E-B-S-T-H-E-R-A-P-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    therapeutische Maßnahme, zur Behandlung einer Krebserkrankung

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. „Das Auftreten von schweren Nebenwirkungen sowie Resistenzentwicklung gehören zu den größten Problemen der modernen Krebstherapie.“
  2. „Die Kombination aus einer verbesserten Krebstherapie und vorbeugenden Maßnahmen sowie weiter entwickelten diagnostischen Möglichkeiten haben dazu geführt, dass Betroffene trotz der Diagnose Krebs oft zuversichtlich in die Zukunft blicken können.“

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 "Krebstherapie"?
"Krebstherapie" is spelled K-R-E-B-S-T-H-E-R-A-P-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkʁeːpsteʁaˌpiː].
What does "Krebstherapie" mean?
As a noun, "Krebstherapie" means: therapeutische Maßnahme, zur Behandlung einer Krebserkrankung
How do you pronounce "Krebstherapie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Krebstherapie" is [ˈkʁeːpsteʁaˌpiː]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Krebstherapie" come from?
"Krebstherapie" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list