Delirium tremens
[deˌliːʁiʊm ˈtʁeːmɛns]
The verdict
“Delirium tremens” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — ernste und potentiell lebensbedrohende Komplikation im Alkoholentzug bei einer schon länger bestehenden Alkoholkrankheit
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delirium tremens |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [deˌliːʁiʊm ˈtʁeːmɛns] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Delirium tremens” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Delirium tremens is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deˌliːʁiʊm ˈtʁeːmɛns]. 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: "ernste und potentiell lebensbedrohende Komplikation im Alkoholentzug bei einer schon länger bestehenden Alkoholkrankheit".
No misspelling variants are generated for Delirium tremens 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 Delirium tremens, spelled D-E-L-I-R-I-U-M- -T-R-E-M-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ernste und potentiell lebensbedrohende Komplikation im Alkoholentzug bei einer schon länger bestehenden Alkoholkrankheit
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- The one correct German spelling is D-E-L-I-R-I-U-M- -T-R-E-M-E-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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