deadly
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The verdict
“deadly” is uncommon German (frequency #85,100 among 45,632 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,100
- frequency rank, German
- 45,632
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - tödlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-deadly · deadly · German
deadly · rank #85,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,100
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 45,632
- PHOTO-FINISH definierst
Nearest frequency peer: definierst (+1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “deadly”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Dauerfeuer
Dauerfeuer
14,904 corpus weight
- deadly
deadly
14,901 corpus weight
- definierst
definierst
14,900 corpus weight
- degenerative
degenerative
14,899 corpus weight
- Degradierung
Degradierung
14,898 corpus weight
- Delos
Delos
14,896 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “deadly” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deadly |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “deadly” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
deadly is uncommon German at frequency #85,100 among 45,632 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tödlich".
deadly has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is deadly, spelled D-E-A-D-L-Y.
Definition
- 1tödlich
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.