Gewalttätigkeit
[ɡəˈvalttɛːtɪçkaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Gewalttätigkeit” is an uncommon German word, ranked #56,168 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #56,168
- frequency rank, German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - vielfache Anwendung von Gewalt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gewalttätigkeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvalttɛːtɪçkaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #56,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gewalttätigkeit” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gewalttätigkeit is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈvalttɛːtɪçkaɪ̯t]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,168 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "vielfache Anwendung von Gewalt".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gewalttätigkeit in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Gewalttätigkeit, spelled G-E-W-A-L-T-T-Ä-T-I-G-K-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1vielfache Anwendung von Gewalt
Antonyms
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 “Gewalttätigkeit”
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-Ä-T-I-G-K-E-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡəˈvalttɛːtɪçkaɪ̯t] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.