polyploid
[poliploˈiːt]
The verdict
“polyploid” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - mehr als zwei haploide Chromosomensätze im Zellkern aufweisend
Corpus desk
Index DE-polyploid · polyploid · German
polyploid · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | polyploid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [poliploˈiːt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „polyploid“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
polyploid is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [poliploˈiːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mehr als zwei haploide Chromosomensätze im Zellkern aufweisend".
Zero misspellings are on record for polyploid in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is polyploid, spelled P-O-L-Y-P-L-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1mehr als zwei haploide Chromosomensätze im Zellkern aufweisend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how polyploid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wenn sich die Tochter-Chromosomen nach der Verdopplung trennen, entstehen tetraploide, bei weiteren Endomitosen polyploide Zellen (z.B. in Leberzellen der Säuger, in Darmepithelzellen bestimmter Insekten).“
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.