death

[dɛθ]

/[dɛθ]/ noun

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The verdict

“death” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,207. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,207
frequency rank, German
2,764
“D” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tod, Exitus

Corpus desk

Index DE-death · death · German

death · rank #11,207 · 7 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,207
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,764
  • PHOTO-FINISH Dallas

Nearest frequency peer: Dallas (-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.

Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „death“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „death“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

death vs det
60% similar
death vs Diät
20% similar
death vs Deut
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for death
PropertyValue
Headworddeath
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[dɛθ]
Letters5
Frequency rank#11,207
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „death“

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).deathliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „Dallas“ (#11,206), „Diebe“ (#11,208), „Cs“ (#11,205). Unter 2,764 „D“-Lemmata liegt „death“ bei #11,207. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around death (IPA [dɛθ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,207 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for death, with forms such as "daeth", "ddeath", and "deaht". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "det", "Diät", "Deut", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is death, spelled D-E-A-T-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tod, Exitus
  2. 2
    Todesfall, Sterbefall

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how death appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. life and death
  2. "But to tell the truth, sir, we were both very much attached to Sir Charles, and his death gave us a shock and made these surroundings very painful to us."

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • daeth
  • ddeath
  • deaht
  • deathh
  • deatth
  • detah
  • edath

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of death - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

daeth2ddeath1deaht2deathh1deatth1detah2edath2
Edit distance from "death"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "death"?
"death" is spelled D-E-A-T-H. The IPA pronunciation is [dɛθ].
What does "death" mean?
As a noun, "death" means: Tod, Exitus
What words are commonly confused with "death"?
"death" is commonly confused with "det", "Diät", "Deut". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "death"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "death" is [dɛθ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "death" come from?
"death" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "death", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Diebe#11,208colin#11,203chief#11,202Droge#11,212

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Dallas7 variantsaussah7 variantsGötze7 variantsKehle7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list