orthopädisch
[ɔʁtoˈpɛːdɪʃ]
The verdict
“orthopädisch” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Orthopädie betreffend, zu ihr gehörend, mithilfe der Orthopädie
Corpus desk
Index DE-orthopadisch · orthopädisch · German
orthopädisch · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" 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 | orthopädisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɔʁtoˈpɛːdɪʃ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „orthopädisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
orthopädisch is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɔʁtoˈpɛːdɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Orthopädie betreffend, zu ihr gehörend, mithilfe der Orthopädie".
No misspelling variants are generated for orthopädisch in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 orthopädisch, spelled O-R-T-H-O-P-Ä-D-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1die Orthopädie betreffend, zu ihr gehörend, mithilfe der Orthopädie
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how orthopädisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Analog der orthopädischen Fixierung sollte das Festbinden auf den Zwangsstuhl die Unbotmäßigkeit des Irren, seine geistige Verkrümmung, korrigieren, begradigen.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.