Justizvollzugsanstalt

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Justizvollzugsanstalt is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [jʊsˈtiːt͡sfɔlˌt͡suːksʔanʃtalt]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,007 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "in Deutschland ein Gebäude zur Unterbringung von Gefangenen, die zu einer Freiheitsstrafe oder Jugendstrafe verurteilt worden sind, auch Ort der Unterbringung von Untersuchungsgefangenen".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Justizvollzugsanstalt, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Justizvollzugsanstalt, spelled J-U-S-T-I-Z-V-O-L-L-Z-U-G-S-A-N-S-T-A-L-T.