Tanzsucht
Letters
9 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Tanzsucht is aGermannoun. It means: epidemische Volkskrankheit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, bei der Menschen tanzten, bis ihnen Schaum aus dem Mund quoll, Wunden auftraten und sie erschöpft zusammenbrachen Pronounced [ˈtant͡sˌzʊxt].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tanzsucht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtant͡sˌzʊxt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Tanzsucht is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtant͡sˌzʊxt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Tanzsucht 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 Tanzsucht, spelled T-A-N-Z-S-U-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1epidemische Volkskrankheit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, bei der Menschen tanzten, bis ihnen Schaum aus dem Mund quoll, Wunden auftraten und sie erschöpft zusammenbrachen
- 2Krankheit, die sich in einem unersättlichen Drang, zur Bewegung und zum Tanz äußert
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