Tabuthema
[taˈbuːˌteːma]
The verdict
“Tabuthema” is uncommon German (frequency #55,758 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,758
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Thema, über das nicht gesprochen wird / nicht gesprochen werden darf
Corpus desk
Index DE-tabuthema · Tabuthema · German
Tabuthema · rank #55,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,758
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH tabula
Nearest frequency peer: tabula (-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 „Tabuthema“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Syrakus
Syrakus
44,248 corpus weight
- süchtigen
süchtigen
44,246 corpus weight
- Südkoreas
Südkoreas
44,245 corpus weight
- tabula
tabula
44,244 corpus weight
- Tabuthema
Tabuthema
44,243 corpus weight
- tak
tak
44,241 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Tabuthema“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tabuthema |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [taˈbuːˌteːma] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Tabuthema“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Tabuthema is uncommon German at frequency #55,758 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [taˈbuːˌteːma]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Thema, über das nicht gesprochen wird / nicht gesprochen werden darf".
Tabuthema has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Tabuthema, spelled T-A-B-U-T-H-E-M-A.
Definition
- 1Thema, über das nicht gesprochen wird / nicht gesprochen werden darf
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tabuthema appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Auch Steuern müssten steigen, so gut wie immer, wenn US-Präsidenten die Staatsfinanzen sanieren wollten. Doch dieser Vorschlag ist auf konservativer Seite längst zum Tabuthema geworden.“
„Lange war es ein Tabuthema. Doch nun diskutieren auch die Euro-Finanzminister eine Pleite Griechenlands.“
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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