Poliomyelitis
[ˌpoli̯omyeˈliːtɪs]
The verdict
“Poliomyelitis” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - virale Infektionskrankheit, meist bei Kindern oder Jugendlichen, welche die Extremitäten lähmen kann
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Poliomyelitis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌpoli̯omyeˈliːtɪs] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Poliomyelitis” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Poliomyelitis is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌpoli̯omyeˈliːtɪs]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "virale Infektionskrankheit, meist bei Kindern oder Jugendlichen, welche die Extremitäten lähmen kann".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Poliomyelitis, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Poliomyelitis, spelled P-O-L-I-O-M-Y-E-L-I-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1virale Infektionskrankheit, meist bei Kindern oder Jugendlichen, welche die Extremitäten lähmen kann
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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.
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Using “Poliomyelitis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-O-L-I-O-M-Y-E-L-I-T-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌpoli̯omyeˈliːtɪs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.