Tamponade
[tampoˈnaːdə]
The verdict
“Tamponade” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Vorgang, einen Hohlraum des Körpers mit einem Tampon/Gaze zu füllen, um Sekret/Blut aufzunehmen, das dazu verwendete Material
Corpus desk
Index DE-tamponade · Tamponade · German
Tamponade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | Tamponade |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tampoˈnaːdə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Tamponade” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Tamponade is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [tampoˈnaːdə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Vorgang, einen Hohlraum des Körpers mit einem Tampon/Gaze zu füllen, um Sekret/Blut aufzunehmen, das dazu verwendete Material".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Tamponade, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Tamponade, spelled T-A-M-P-O-N-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1der Vorgang, einen Hohlraum des Körpers mit einem Tampon/Gaze zu füllen, um Sekret/Blut aufzunehmen, das dazu verwendete Material
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tamponade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Eine Tamponade der Nasenhöhle ist für einige Tage angezeigt.“
Man schiebt einen dünnen Vliesstreifen (Tamponade) unter den seitlichen Nagelrand, so dass die Tamponade zwischen Nagelfalz und Nagel zu liegen kommt.
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.
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