Selbstheilung
[ˈzɛlpstˌhaɪ̯lʊŋ]
The verdict
“Selbstheilung” is uncommon German (frequency #87,047 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,047
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Heilung aus eigener Kraft, ohne Unterstützung und Hilfsmittel geschehendes Heilen von Verletzungen und Krankheiten
Corpus desk
Index DE-selbstheilung · Selbstheilung · German
Selbstheilung · rank #87,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,047
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH selbstgemacht…
Nearest frequency peer: selbstgemachter (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Selbstheilung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Seitenflügel
Seitenflügel
12,957 corpus weight
- Sekundentakt
Sekundentakt
12,956 corpus weight
- selbstgemac…
selbstgemachter
12,955 corpus weight
- Selbstheilu…
Selbstheilung
12,954 corpus weight
- Selbstsucht
Selbstsucht
12,953 corpus weight
- Semiotik
Semiotik
12,952 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Selbstheilung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Selbstheilung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛlpstˌhaɪ̯lʊŋ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #87,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Selbstheilung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Selbstheilung is uncommon German at frequency #87,047 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzɛlpstˌhaɪ̯lʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Heilung aus eigener Kraft, ohne Unterstützung und Hilfsmittel geschehendes Heilen von Verletzungen und Krankheiten".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Selbstheilung in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Selbstheilung, spelled S-E-L-B-S-T-H-E-I-L-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Heilung aus eigener Kraft, ohne Unterstützung und Hilfsmittel geschehendes Heilen von Verletzungen und Krankheiten
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Selbstheilung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sie zog ächzend an der Tür und ignorierte den Schmerz in ihren Händen, so gut sie konnte, indem sie an ihre bevorstehende Selbstheilung dachte.“
This word in other languages
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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