committal
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The verdict
“committal” 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Durchführung einer (meist verwerflichen) Tat: Begehung, Verübung
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | committal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “committal” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for committal is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for committal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is committal, spelled C-O-M-M-I-T-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Durchführung einer (meist verwerflichen) Tat: Begehung, Verübung
- 2Veranlassung eines Aufenthaltes in einem Krankenhaus, Heim, Gefängnis, einer Psychiatrie: Einweisung
- 3Übergabe in die Verantwortung eines anderen oder an einen anderen Ort; Überstellung an ein höheres Gericht, zum Beispiel bei Strafprozessen
- 4Übergabe eines Verstorbenen in die Erde oder in das Feuer: Bestattung, Beisetzung
Synonyms
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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Using “committal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-O-M-M-I-T-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.