Nötigung

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Nötigung is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnøːtɪɡʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,688 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ein Strafbestand, bei dem auf unerlaubte Art mit Gewalt gedroht oder mit einer Bedrohung gezwungen wird, um ein Ziel zu erreichen".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nötigung, with forms such as "nnötigung", "ntöigung", and "nöitgung". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "nötigen", "Neigung", 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 Nötigung, spelled N-Ö-T-I-G-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.