Schwellkörper
German, noun/ˈʃvɛlˌkœʁpɐ/
Schwellkörper is spelled S-C-H-W-E-L-L-K-Ö-R-P-E-R (13 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 125,379th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schwellkörper is a German masculine noun meaning “corpus cavernosum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gewebe, das in der Lage ist durch vermehrte Blutzufuhr und Stauung, sein Volumen zu vergrößern und steif zu…”.
What does Schwellkörper mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecorpus cavernosum
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gewebe, das in der Lage ist durch vermehrte Blutzufuhr und Stauung, sein Volumen zu vergrößern und steif zu werden
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Schwellkörper
- Schwellkörpers genitive
- Schwellkörpern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Schwellkörper?
- /ˈʃvɛlˌkœʁpɐ/
- [ˈʃvɛlˌkœʁpɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Schwellkörper in German?
Schwellkörper appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).