Pharmakon
[ˈfaʁmakɔn]
The verdict
“Pharmakon” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stoff oder Stoffgemisch, das die Vitalfunktion von Zellgewebe, Organen oder Organismen positiv oder negativ beeinflusst
Corpus desk
Index DE-pharmakon · Pharmakon · German
Pharmakon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | Pharmakon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfaʁmakɔn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Pharmakon“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Pharmakon is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfaʁmakɔn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Pharmakon has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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.
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 Pharmakon, spelled P-H-A-R-M-A-K-O-N.
Definition
- 1Stoff oder Stoffgemisch, das die Vitalfunktion von Zellgewebe, Organen oder Organismen positiv oder negativ beeinflusst
- 2Stoff, der zu therapeutischen, diagnostischen oder prophylaktischen Zwecken eingesetzt wird; Stoff mit therapeutisch nützlicher Wirkung
- 3Zauber-, Liebestrank
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pharmakon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein Pharmakon mit einer hohen Potenz zeigt auch bei geringer Konzentration bereits eine große Wirkung.“
„Die Belastung wird durch die Gabe eines vasodilatativen Pharmakons simuliert, z. B. durch Gabe von Adenosin oder Dipyridamol.“
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.