Stethoskop
[ʃtetoˈskoːp]
The verdict
“Stethoskop” is uncommon German (frequency #99,135 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,135
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diagnosegerät zur Beurteilung von Geräuschen (vor allem in der Medizin)
Corpus desk
Index DE-stethoskop · Stethoskop · German
Stethoskop · rank #99,135 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,135
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sterbt
Nearest frequency peer: sterbt (-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 „Stethoskop“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Stellingen
Stellingen
869 corpus weight
- Stenz
Stenz
868 corpus weight
- sterbt
sterbt
867 corpus weight
- Stethoskop
Stethoskop
866 corpus weight
- steuerfreien
steuerfreien
865 corpus weight
- stillem
stillem
863 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Stethoskop“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stethoskop |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃtetoˈskoːp] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Stethoskop“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Stethoskop is uncommon German at frequency #99,135 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃtetoˈskoːp]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Diagnosegerät zur Beurteilung von Geräuschen (vor allem in der Medizin)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Stethoskop, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Stethoskop, spelled S-T-E-T-H-O-S-K-O-P.
Definition
- 1Diagnosegerät zur Beurteilung von Geräuschen (vor allem in der Medizin)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stethoskop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Um ihre Herztöne hören zu können, legte der Arzt ihr das Stethoskop auf die Brust.
Der Einbrecher lauschte mit dem Stethoskop an der Tür des Panzerschranks, um die richtige Zahlenkombination herauszubekommen.
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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