Östrogen
[œstʁoˈɡeːn]
The verdict
“Östrogen” is uncommon German (frequency #63,062 among 53 “Ö” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,062
- frequency rank, German
- 53
- “Ö” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hormon, das für die weiblichen Eigenschaften einer Person verantwortlich ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-ostrogen · Östrogen · German
Östrogen · rank #63,062 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,062
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 53
- PHOTO-FINISH Zülpich
Nearest frequency peer: Zülpich (-2 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 „Östrogen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- zwing
zwing
36,943 corpus weight
- zähneknirsc…
zähneknirschend
36,942 corpus weight
- Zülpich
Zülpich
36,941 corpus weight
- Östrogen
Östrogen
36,939 corpus weight
- Überalterung
Überalterung
36,937 corpus weight
- überspielt
überspielt
36,935 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Östrogen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Östrogen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [œstʁoˈɡeːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Östrogen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Östrogen is uncommon German at frequency #63,062 among 53 “Ö” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [œstʁoˈɡeːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hormon, das für die weiblichen Eigenschaften einer Person verantwortlich ist".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Östrogen, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Östrogen, spelled Ö-S-T-R-O-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Hormon, das für die weiblichen Eigenschaften einer Person verantwortlich ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Östrogen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Östrogen stimuliert das Wachstum der Brüste.“
„Das Östrogen bewirkt das Haarwachstum unter den Achseln und die Verbreiterung des Beckens.“
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Antonyms
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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