Märtyrertod
[ˈmɛʁtyʁɐˌtoːt]
The verdict
“Märtyrertod” is uncommon German (frequency #79,525 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,525
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tod, den jemand erleidet, weil er sich für seinen Glauben einsetzt
Corpus desk
Index DE-martyrertod · Märtyrertod · German
Märtyrertod · rank #79,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,525
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH muskuläre
Nearest frequency peer: muskuläre (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Märtyrertod“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- musealen
musealen
20,480 corpus weight
- Musikkultur
Musikkultur
20,479 corpus weight
- muskuläre
muskuläre
20,477 corpus weight
- Märtyrertod
Märtyrertod
20,476 corpus weight
- mühevoller
mühevoller
20,475 corpus weight
- nachgezeich…
nachgezeichnet
20,472 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Märtyrertod“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Märtyrertod |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɛʁtyʁɐˌtoːt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Märtyrertod“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Märtyrertod is uncommon German at frequency #79,525 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmɛʁtyʁɐˌtoːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tod, den jemand erleidet, weil er sich für seinen Glauben einsetzt".
Märtyrertod has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Märtyrertod, spelled M-Ä-R-T-Y-R-E-R-T-O-D.
Definition
- 1Tod, den jemand erleidet, weil er sich für seinen Glauben einsetzt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Märtyrertod appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Silveira ist den Märtyrertod gestorben, den er herbeigesehnt hat.“
„Al-Kassam wurde überall als fanatischer Kämpfer bezeichnet, der ohne zu zögern bereit gewesen sei, den Märtyrertod zu sterben.“
This word in other languages
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).