tetravalent
[tetʁavaˈlɛnt]
The verdict
“tetravalent” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gleichzeitig gegen vier unterschiedliche Erreger immunisierend
Corpus desk
Index DE-tetravalent · tetravalent · German
tetravalent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 | tetravalent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [tetʁavaˈlɛnt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tetravalent“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tetravalent is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [tetʁavaˈlɛnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tetravalent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 tetravalent, spelled T-E-T-R-A-V-A-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1gleichzeitig gegen vier unterschiedliche Erreger immunisierend
- 2zu einer chemischen Bindung mit vier Atomen fähig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tetravalent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Studien der letzten Jahre haben gezeigt, dass die Anwendung der tri- oder tetravalenten inaktivierten Influenzavakzine (TIV) bei hühnereiallergischen Patienten sicher ist […].“
„Es handelt sich um einen tetravalenten Konjugationsimpfstoff, der vier proteinerge, nicht der Kapsel entstammende Antigene enthält.“
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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.