Dienstag

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The German entry for Dienstag is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdiːnsˌtaːk]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,917 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "zweiter Wochentag gemäß ISO 8601; dritter Wochentag nach jüdischer, christlicher und islamischer Zählung; Tag zwischen Montag und Mittwoch".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Dienstag, with forms such as "ddienstag", "deinstag", and "diennstag". 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 also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Dienste", "Diensten", "Dienstes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Dienstag, spelled D-I-E-N-S-T-A-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.