TACITUS
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The verdict
“TACITUS” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #46,312 in German word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #46,312
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Medizin: Abkürzung für Thyroid Allostasis in Critical Illness, Tumours, Uraemia and Starvation
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | TACITUS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “TACITUS” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for TACITUS is 7 letters long, classified as an abbreviation, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #46,312 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Medizin: Abkürzung für Thyroid Allostasis in Critical Illness, Tumours, Uraemia and Starvation".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for TACITUS, with forms such as "atcitus", "taccitus", and "tacitsu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Titus", "TO", "video", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is TACITUS, spelled T-A-C-I-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Medizin: Abkürzung für Thyroid Allostasis in Critical Illness, Tumours, Uraemia and Starvation
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atcitus,taccitus,tacitsu,tacittus,tacituss,taciuts,tactius,taictus,tcaitus,ttacitus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of TACITUS - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “TACITUS”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-A-C-I-T-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Titus” - see the side-by-side comparison. TACITUS vs Titus
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.