sterilisieren
[steʁiliˈziːʁən]
The verdict
“sterilisieren” is an uncommon German word, ranked #66,729 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #66,729
- frequency rank, German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gegenstände, Flüssigkeiten keimfrei, steril machen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sterilisieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [steʁiliˈziːʁən] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #66,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sterilisieren” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sterilisieren is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [steʁiliˈziːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,729 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
sterilisieren has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is sterilisieren, spelled S-T-E-R-I-L-I-S-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Gegenstände, Flüssigkeiten keimfrei, steril machen
- 2Menschen oder Tiere unfruchtbar, zeugungsunfähig machen
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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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Using “sterilisieren”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-E-R-I-L-I-S-I-E-R-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [steʁiliˈziːʁən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.