Pheromon
[feʁoˈmoːn]
The verdict
“Pheromon” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wirkstoff, der zwischen Individuen der gleichen Art Signale vermittelt
Corpus desk
Index DE-pheromon · Pheromon · German
Pheromon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | Pheromon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [feʁoˈmoːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Pheromon“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Pheromon is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [feʁoˈmoːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wirkstoff, der zwischen Individuen der gleichen Art Signale vermittelt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Pheromon in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Pheromon, spelled P-H-E-R-O-M-O-N.
Definition
- 1Wirkstoff, der zwischen Individuen der gleichen Art Signale vermittelt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pheromon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pheromone dienen der Signalübermittlung zwischen den Individuen einer Spezies. Ein Beispiel ist Bombykol, der über die Luft verbreitete Sexuallockstoff des Seidenspinners Bombyx mori.
„Dass Pheromone auch gerade dabei waren, Toms Gehirn zu verändern, bemerkte er nicht, da sie unbewusst aufgenommen wurden.“
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.