Donnerstag

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Donnerstag is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdɔnɐsˌtaːk]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,873 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "vierter Wochentag gemäß ISO 8601; fünfter Wochentag nach jüdischer, christlicher und islamischer Zählung; Tag zwischen Mittwoch und Freitag".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for Donnerstag, with forms such as "ddonnerstag", "dnonerstag", and "donenrstag". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "donnerstags", 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 Donnerstag, spelled D-O-N-N-E-R-S-T-A-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.