Gewalttat
[ɡəˈvaltˌtaːt]
The verdict
“Gewalttat” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #44,649 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #44,649
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aggressive Handlung, bei der körperliche oder technische Gewalt gegen eine Person/Personen ausgeübt wird
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gewalttat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvaltˌtaːt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gewalttat” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gewalttat is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈvaltˌtaːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,649 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "aggressive Handlung, bei der körperliche oder technische Gewalt gegen eine Person/Personen ausgeübt wird".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gewalttat, with forms such as "egwalttat", "geawlttat", and "gewallttat". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "gewalttätig", "Gewalttaten", "gewaltsam", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Gewalttat, spelled G-E-W-A-L-T-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1aggressive Handlung, bei der körperliche oder technische Gewalt gegen eine Person/Personen ausgeübt wird
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egwalttat,geawlttat,gewallttat,gewaltat,gewaltatt,gewalttatt,gewalttta,gewatltat,gewlattat,gewwalttat,ggewalttat,gwealttat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gewalttat - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Gewalttat”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-W-A-L-T-T-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡəˈvaltˌtaːt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “gewalttätig” - see the side-by-side comparison. Gewalttat vs gewalttätig
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
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.