committal
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The verdict
“committal” 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) - Durchführung einer (meist verwerflichen) Tat: Begehung, Verübung
Corpus desk
Index DE-committal · committal · German
committal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | committal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „committal“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
committal is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how committal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 to avoid impeachment over the Watergate scandal, which concerned dirty tricks against political opponents including the committal of crimes.”
“Donaldson's violent temper led to his committal to a mental asylum, after two attempted murders.”
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.