rheumatisch

/[ʁɔɪ̯ˈmaːtɪʃ]/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

rheumatisch is anGermanadj. It means: Zustand entzündeter Gelenke, Knochen oder Muskeln und dadurch verursachter Schmerzen bis zu Degenerationen im Bewegungsapparat. Neben Schmerzen sind Bewegungseinschränkungen häufig verbunden mit rh... Pronounced [ʁɔɪ̯ˈmaːtɪʃ].

Key facts for rheumatisch
PropertyValue
Headwordrheumatisch
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ʁɔɪ̯ˈmaːtɪʃ]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

rheumatisch is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for rheumatisch is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁɔɪ̯ˈmaːtɪʃ]. 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: "Zustand entzündeter Gelenke, Knochen oder Muskeln und dadurch verursachter Schmerzen bis zu Degenerationen im Bewegungsapparat. Neben Schmerzen sind Bewegungseinschränkungen häufig verbunden mit rh...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rheumatisch in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is rheumatisch, spelled R-H-E-U-M-A-T-I-S-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Zustand entzündeter Gelenke, Knochen oder Muskeln und dadurch verursachter Schmerzen bis zu Degenerationen im Bewegungsapparat. Neben Schmerzen sind Bewegungseinschränkungen häufig verbunden mit rheumatischen Erkrankungen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rheumatisch"?
"rheumatisch" is spelled R-H-E-U-M-A-T-I-S-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is [ʁɔɪ̯ˈmaːtɪʃ].
What does "rheumatisch" mean?
As an adj, "rheumatisch" means: Zustand entzündeter Gelenke, Knochen oder Muskeln und dadurch verursachter Schmerzen bis zu Degenerationen im Bewegungsapparat. Neben Schmerzen sind Bewegungseinschränkungen häufig verbunden mit rh...
How do you pronounce "rheumatisch"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rheumatisch" is [ʁɔɪ̯ˈmaːtɪʃ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rheumatisch" come from?
"rheumatisch" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.