pathologisch
[patoˈloːɡɪʃ]
The verdict
“pathologisch” is uncommon German (frequency #67,581 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,581
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - krankhaft; vom gesunden Zustand abweichend
Corpus desk
Index DE-pathologisch · pathologisch · German
pathologisch · rank #67,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,581
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH peilt
Nearest frequency peer: peilt (+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 „pathologisch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- parent
parent
32,424 corpus weight
- pathologisch
pathologisch
32,420 corpus weight
- peilt
peilt
32,419 corpus weight
- pensionierte
pensionierte
32,418 corpus weight
- Personalchef
Personalchef
32,417 corpus weight
- Pferdemarkt
Pferdemarkt
32,415 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „pathologisch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pathologisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [patoˈloːɡɪʃ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #67,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „pathologisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
pathologisch is uncommon German at frequency #67,581 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [patoˈloːɡɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "krankhaft; vom gesunden Zustand abweichend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pathologisch, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is pathologisch, spelled P-A-T-H-O-L-O-G-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1krankhaft; vom gesunden Zustand abweichend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pathologisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die roten Masernflecken auf der Haut sind pathologisch, weil sie durch die Krankheit Masern hervorgerufen werden.
„Der bekennende Rassist gehörte zu den schlimmsten, pathologischsten Antisemiten der Epoche.“
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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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