Corpus Delicti
[ˌkɔʁpʊs deˈlɪkti]
The verdict
“Corpus Delicti” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Beweismittel, Beweisstück für ein Verbrechen, zum Beispiel die Tatwaffe
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Corpus Delicti |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌkɔʁpʊs deˈlɪkti] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Corpus Delicti” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Corpus Delicti is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌkɔʁpʊs deˈlɪkti]. 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: "Beweismittel, Beweisstück für ein Verbrechen, zum Beispiel die Tatwaffe".
No misspelling variants are generated for Corpus Delicti 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 Corpus Delicti, spelled C-O-R-P-U-S- -D-E-L-I-C-T-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Beweismittel, Beweisstück für ein Verbrechen, zum Beispiel die Tatwaffe
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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- The one correct German spelling is C-O-R-P-U-S- -D-E-L-I-C-T-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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