dismissal
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The verdict
“dismissal” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Auflösung eines Arbeits- oder Dienstverhältnisses durch den Arbeitgeber oder Dienstherrn: Entlassung
Corpus desk
Index DE-dismissal · dismissal · German
dismissal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dismissal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „dismissal“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
dismissal is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dismissal in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 dismissal, spelled D-I-S-M-I-S-S-A-L.
Definition
- 1Auflösung eines Arbeits- oder Dienstverhältnisses durch den Arbeitgeber oder Dienstherrn: Entlassung
- 2Anweisung oder Erlaubnis, dass jemand gehen darf: Entlassung, Wegschicken
- 3Handlung, mit der man etwas, mit dem man nicht einverstanden ist, von sich weist: Ablehnung, Verwerfung
- 4Beendigung oder Ablehnung eines Gerichtsverfahrens: Abweisung, Einstellung
- 5Ausschluss von Spiel wegen eines Regelverstoßes: Platzverweis
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dismissal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The company announced the dismissal of workers.
“But his speedy recovery led to his dismissal from the hospital on Friday morning […].”
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.