Festungshaft
[ˈfɛstʊŋsˌhaft]
The verdict
“Festungshaft” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Freiheitsstrafe, die vornehmlich in einer Festung (aber auch anderenorts) verbüßt wurde
Corpus desk
Index DE-festungshaft · Festungshaft · German
Festungshaft · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | Festungshaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstʊŋsˌhaft] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Festungshaft” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Festungshaft is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfɛstʊŋsˌhaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Freiheitsstrafe, die vornehmlich in einer Festung (aber auch anderenorts) verbüßt wurde".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Festungshaft, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Festungshaft, spelled F-E-S-T-U-N-G-S-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Freiheitsstrafe, die vornehmlich in einer Festung (aber auch anderenorts) verbüßt wurde
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.