Entführung

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Entführung is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛntˈfyːʁʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,272 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Entfernung einer Person (oder auch Sache) gegen ihren Willen mit Gewalt/Androhung von Gewalt aus ihrem eigenen Umfeld sowie das Ergebnis einer solchen Handlung".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for Entführung, with forms such as "enftührung", "enntführung", and "entfführung". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Entführungen", "entführen", "Einführung", 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 Entführung, spelled E-N-T-F-Ü-H-R-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.