deshalb

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for deshalb is 7 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdɛshalp]. Corpus data places it at rank #356 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "weist auf eine vorausgehende Ursache oder einen Grund hin und bezeichnet die Folge".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for deshalb, with forms such as "ddeshalb", "dehsalb", and "desahlb". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 deshalb, spelled D-E-S-H-A-L-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.