Ohrläppchen
[ˈoːɐ̯ˌlɛpçən]
The verdict
“Ohrläppchen” is uncommon German (frequency #59,047 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,047
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unterer, zipfelartiger Teil des (menschlichen) Außenohrs
Corpus desk
Index DE-ohrlappchen · Ohrläppchen · German
Ohrläppchen · rank #59,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,047
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Offerten
Nearest frequency peer: Offerten (-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 „Ohrläppchen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Ocker
Ocker
40,957 corpus weight
- OEM
OEM
40,956 corpus weight
- Offerten
Offerten
40,955 corpus weight
- Ohrläppchen
Ohrläppchen
40,954 corpus weight
- Oka
Oka
40,953 corpus weight
- oled
oled
40,952 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ohrläppchen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ohrläppchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoːɐ̯ˌlɛpçən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ohrläppchen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ohrläppchen is uncommon German at frequency #59,047 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈoːɐ̯ˌlɛpçən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "unterer, zipfelartiger Teil des (menschlichen) Außenohrs".
Ohrläppchen has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Ohrläppchen, spelled O-H-R-L-Ä-P-P-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1unterer, zipfelartiger Teil des (menschlichen) Außenohrs
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ohrläppchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Blutabnahme über das Ohrläppchen wird besonders bei Kindern angewandt, da dort kaum Nervenzellen vorhanden sind, wodurch der Schmerz des Einstiches gemindert wird.
„Warum, warum machten sie das mit Schrella, stellten ihm ein Bein, wenn er zur Pause die Treppe hinunterging; er schlug mit dem Kopf auf die stählerne Treppenkante, der Stahlbügel der Brille bohrte sich ins Ohrläppchen, und viel zu spät kam Wackes mit dem Erste-Hilfe-Kasten aus dem Lehrerzimmer.“
This word in other languages
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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