Fehlgeburt

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Fehlgeburt is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfeːlɡəˌbuːɐ̯t]. Corpus data places it at rank #43,864 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "spontane (ungewollte) oder artifizielle (gewollte) vorzeitige Unterbrechung der Schwangerschaft durch Verlust der Leibesfrucht mit einem Gewicht von weniger als fünfhundert Gramm und dem Fehlen von...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Fehlgeburt, with forms such as "efhlgeburt", "fehgleburt", and "fehhlgeburt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Fehlgeburt, spelled F-E-H-L-G-E-B-U-R-T.