Orthopäde
[ɔʁtoˈpɛːdə]
The verdict
“Orthopäde” is uncommon German (frequency #59,054 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,054
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Facharzt für Orthopädie
Corpus desk
Index DE-orthopade · Orthopäde · German
Orthopäde · rank #59,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,054
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH orla
Nearest frequency peer: orla (-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 „Orthopäde“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- oralen
oralen
40,950 corpus weight
- Ordnern
Ordnern
40,949 corpus weight
- orla
orla
40,948 corpus weight
- Orthopäde
Orthopäde
40,947 corpus weight
- Osteuropäer
Osteuropäer
40,946 corpus weight
- Ostgrenze
Ostgrenze
40,945 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Orthopäde“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Orthopäde |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔʁtoˈpɛːdə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Orthopäde“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Orthopäde is uncommon German at frequency #59,054 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɔʁtoˈpɛːdə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Facharzt für Orthopädie".
No misspelling variants are generated for Orthopäde in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Orthopäde, spelled O-R-T-H-O-P-Ä-D-E.
Definition
- 1Facharzt für Orthopädie
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Orthopäde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit deinem Knochenbruch solltest du dringend einen Orthopäden aufsuchen.
„Roth erwähnte das Spiel gegen Princeton 1948, und die beiden freundeten sich an; da Roth im nahegelegenen Warren lebte, konsulierte er Root, einen hervorragenden Orthopäden, gelegentlich wegen seiner Rückenprobleme.“
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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