metastabil
[metaʃtaˈbiːl]
The verdict
“metastabil” 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 May 6, 2026) - beschreibt ein System, das bei kleinen Störungen stabil bleibt, bei größeren Störungen aber instabil wird und in einen anderen (stabilen) Zustand übergeht
Corpus desk
Index DE-metastabil · metastabil · German
metastabil · 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 "M" 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 | metastabil |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [metaʃtaˈbiːl] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “metastabil” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
metastabil is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [metaʃtaˈbiːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "beschreibt ein System, das bei kleinen Störungen stabil bleibt, bei größeren Störungen aber instabil wird und in einen anderen (stabilen) Zustand übergeht".
metastabil doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is metastabil, spelled M-E-T-A-S-T-A-B-I-L.
Definition
- 1beschreibt ein System, das bei kleinen Störungen stabil bleibt, bei größeren Störungen aber instabil wird und in einen anderen (stabilen) Zustand übergeht
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