Dativus Incommodi
The verdict
“Dativus Incommodi” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: einer der freien Dative; er steht für die Person, die von einer Handlung einen Schaden hat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dativus Incommodi |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [daˌtiːvʊs ʔɪnˈkɔmodi] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dativus Incommodi” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Dativus Incommodi is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [daˌtiːvʊs ʔɪnˈkɔmodi]. 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: "einer der freien Dative; er steht für die Person, die von einer Handlung einen Schaden hat".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dativus Incommodi 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 Dativus Incommodi, spelled D-A-T-I-V-U-S- -I-N-C-O-M-M-O-D-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einer der freien Dative; er steht für die Person, die von einer Handlung einen Schaden hat
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Using “Dativus Incommodi”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-A-T-I-V-U-S- -I-N-C-O-M-M-O-D-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [daˌtiːvʊs ʔɪnˈkɔmodi] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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