postnatal
[pɔstnaˈtaːl]
The verdict
“postnatal” 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) - nachgeburtlich, nach der Entbindung
Corpus desk
Index DE-postnatal · postnatal · German
postnatal · 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 | postnatal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pɔstnaˈtaːl] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „postnatal“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
postnatal is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [pɔstnaˈtaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nachgeburtlich, nach der Entbindung".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for postnatal, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is postnatal, spelled P-O-S-T-N-A-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1nachgeburtlich, nach der Entbindung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how postnatal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Lenz: Es gibt natürlich bei Müttern, die gerade ein Kind bekommen haben, sogenannte postnatale Krankheitsbilder.“
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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.