Tritium
[ˈtʁiːt͡si̯ʊm]
The verdict
“Tritium” is uncommon German (frequency #96,386 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,386
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - radioaktives Wasserstoffisotop, dessen Atomkern aus einem Proton und zwei Neutronen besteht
Corpus desk
Index DE-tritium · Tritium · German
Tritium · rank #96,386 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,386
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Trostberg
Nearest frequency peer: Trostberg (+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 „Tritium“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Tremor
Tremor
3,619 corpus weight
- Tribunals
Tribunals
3,618 corpus weight
- Tritium
Tritium
3,615 corpus weight
- Trostberg
Trostberg
3,614 corpus weight
- tröstende
tröstende
3,611 corpus weight
- turbulenter
turbulenter
3,610 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Tritium“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tritium |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtʁiːt͡si̯ʊm] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Tritium“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Tritium is uncommon German at frequency #96,386 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtʁiːt͡si̯ʊm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "radioaktives Wasserstoffisotop, dessen Atomkern aus einem Proton und zwei Neutronen besteht".
Tritium has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Tritium, spelled T-R-I-T-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1radioaktives Wasserstoffisotop, dessen Atomkern aus einem Proton und zwei Neutronen besteht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tritium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wird Tritium mit dem Trinkwasser aufgenommen, verteilt es sich im ganzen Körper und führt zu einer gleichmäßigen Strahlenbelastung aller Organe.
„Durch den illegalen Export von Tritium und Tritiumtechnologie haben sich seitdem die politischen Prioritäten in der Bundesrepublik in der Proliferationsfrage gewandelt.“
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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