Inzest

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Inzest is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪnˈt͡sɛst]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,575 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Geschlechtsverkehr zwischen engsten Blutsverwandten, zum Beispiel Eltern und Kindern oder Geschwistern".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Inzest, with forms such as "inezst", "innzest", and "inzesst". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Ines", "indes", "Insekt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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