Sterilität
[ˌʃteʁiliˈtɛːt]
The verdict
“Sterilität” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eigenschaft, nicht fruchtbar, sondern zeugungsunfähig (steril) zu sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-sterilitat · Sterilität · German
Sterilität · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | Sterilität |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌʃteʁiliˈtɛːt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sterilität“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sterilität is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌʃteʁiliˈtɛːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Sterilität in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Sterilität, spelled S-T-E-R-I-L-I-T-Ä-T.
Definition
- 1Eigenschaft, nicht fruchtbar, sondern zeugungsunfähig (steril) zu sein
- 2Eigenschaft, frei von Keimen/Bakterien zu sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sterilität appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Von Sterilität wird dann gesprochen, wenn es innerhalb eines Jahres bei regelmäßigem Koitus eines Paares ohne Kontrazeption nicht zu einer Schwangerschaft kommt. Es wird differenziert zwischen primärer und sekundärer Sterilität.“
„Die Durchsetzung der In-Prozeß-Kontrollen und der mikrobiologischen Anforderungen kann die Sterilität des Endproduktes sicherstellen.“
Antonyms
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.