Freiheitsentzug

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Freiheitsentzug is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfʁaɪ̯haɪ̯t͡sˌʔɛntˌt͡suːk]. Corpus data places it at rank #72,436 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Einschränkung der persönlichen Freiheit einer Person durch Behörden oder Gerichte".

No misspelling variants are generated for Freiheitsentzug in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 Freiheitsentzug, spelled F-R-E-I-H-E-I-T-S-E-N-T-Z-U-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.