talac

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for talac is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtǎːlat͡s]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Person, die von Verbrechern zum Schutz (z. B. vor der Polizei) oder zur Forderung eines Lösegeldes festgehalten wird; Geisel".

No misspelling variants are generated for talac in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 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 talac, spelled T-A-L-A-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.