aberratio ictus
The verdict
“aberratio ictus” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: das Fehlgehen einer Tat in der Form, dass statt des anvisierten Tatobjekts ein anderes getroffen wird, dessen Verletzung vom Vorsatz des Täters nicht umfasst war
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aberratio ictus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [apʔɛˌʁaːt͡si̯o ˈɪktuːs] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aberratio ictus” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for aberratio ictus is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [apʔɛˌʁaːt͡si̯o ˈɪktuːs]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "das Fehlgehen einer Tat in der Form, dass statt des anvisierten Tatobjekts ein anderes getroffen wird, dessen Verletzung vom Vorsatz des Täters nicht umfasst war".
No misspelling variants are generated for aberratio ictus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is aberratio ictus, spelled A-B-E-R-R-A-T-I-O- -I-C-T-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Fehlgehen einer Tat in der Form, dass statt des anvisierten Tatobjekts ein anderes getroffen wird, dessen Verletzung vom Vorsatz des Täters nicht umfasst war
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- The one correct German spelling is A-B-E-R-R-A-T-I-O- -I-C-T-U-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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