Sicherheitslücke

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The German entry for Sicherheitslücke is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzɪçɐhaɪ̯t͡sˌlʏkə]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,285 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Schwachstelle in einer Software, durch die ein schädliches Programm oder ein Hacker in den Rechner eindringen kann".

Our generated misspelling index lists 25 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sicherheitslücke, with forms such as "ischerheitslücke", "sciherheitslücke", and "siccherheitslücke". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Sicherheitslücken", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Sicherheitslücke, spelled S-I-C-H-E-R-H-E-I-T-S-L-Ü-C-K-E.