Oxytocin
[ɔksitoˈt͡siːn]
The verdict
“Oxytocin” is uncommon German (frequency #80,768 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,768
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hormon, das nicht nur beim Geburtsprozess eine wichtige Rolle spielt, sondern in jeglicher Paarbeziehung
Corpus desk
Index DE-oxytocin · Oxytocin · German
Oxytocin · rank #80,768 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,768
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Osthessen
Nearest frequency peer: Osthessen (-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 „Oxytocin“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Opiate
Opiate
19,238 corpus weight
- ordinary
ordinary
19,237 corpus weight
- originär
originär
19,236 corpus weight
- Osthessen
Osthessen
19,235 corpus weight
- Oxytocin
Oxytocin
19,233 corpus weight
- Parkes
Parkes
19,230 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Oxytocin“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oxytocin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔksitoˈt͡siːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Oxytocin“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Oxytocin is uncommon German at frequency #80,768 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɔksitoˈt͡siːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hormon, das nicht nur beim Geburtsprozess eine wichtige Rolle spielt, sondern in jeglicher Paarbeziehung".
No misspelling variants are generated for Oxytocin in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Oxytocin, spelled O-X-Y-T-O-C-I-N.
Definition
- 1Hormon, das nicht nur beim Geburtsprozess eine wichtige Rolle spielt, sondern in jeglicher Paarbeziehung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Oxytocin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oxytocin begünstigt den Aufbau einer intensiven emotionalen Bindung der frischgebackenen Mutter zum Kind.
Die Bedeutung des Oxytocins als Kuschel- und Liebeshormon tritt immer deutlicher in den Fokus der Forschung.
Synonyms
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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