postdoc
[pɔstdɔk]
The verdict
“postdoc” is uncommon German (frequency #86,915 among 49,534 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,915
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - in der Zeit nach der Promotion; Postdoc-
Corpus desk
Index DE-postdoc · postdoc · German
postdoc · rank #86,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,915
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 49,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Pore
Nearest frequency peer: Pore (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “postdoc”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Piranhas
Piranhas
13,090 corpus weight
- Polsterung
Polsterung
13,088 corpus weight
- Pore
Pore
13,087 corpus weight
- postdoc
postdoc
13,086 corpus weight
- Prachtexemp…
Prachtexemplar
13,084 corpus weight
- Pranken
Pranken
13,083 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “postdoc” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postdoc |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pɔstdɔk] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “postdoc” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
postdoc is uncommon German at frequency #86,915 among 49,534 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [pɔstdɔk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in der Zeit nach der Promotion; Postdoc-".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for postdoc, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 postdoc, spelled P-O-S-T-D-O-C.
Definition
- 1in der Zeit nach der Promotion; Postdoc-
Synonyms
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.