ertränken

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for ertränken is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛɐ̯ˈtʁɛŋkn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #48,860 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "jemanden oder etwas töten, indem man die Atmungsorgane unter Wasser hält".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ertränken, with forms such as "errtränken", "errtänken", and "ertrnäken". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ertrinken", "ertrunken", "ertragen", 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 ertränken, spelled E-R-T-R-Ä-N-K-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.