tätlich
[ˈtɛːtlɪç]
The verdict
“tätlich” is uncommon German (frequency #68,777 among 35,386 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,777
- frequency rank, German
- 35,386
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - körperliche Gewalt gegen Personen einsetzend
Corpus desk
Index DE-tatlich · tätlich · German
tätlich · rank #68,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,777
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 35,386
- PHOTO-FINISH twice
Nearest frequency peer: twice (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tätlich”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Turnschuhen
Turnschuhen
31,227 corpus weight
- turnt
turnt
31,226 corpus weight
- twice
twice
31,225 corpus weight
- tätlich
tätlich
31,224 corpus weight
- Umdeutung
Umdeutung
31,223 corpus weight
- umhauen
umhauen
31,222 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tätlich” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tätlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈtɛːtlɪç] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tätlich” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tätlich is uncommon German at frequency #68,777 among 35,386 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈtɛːtlɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "körperliche Gewalt gegen Personen einsetzend".
tätlich doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is tätlich, spelled T-Ä-T-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1körperliche Gewalt gegen Personen einsetzend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tätlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Frauen kommen aus schwierigsten Verhältnissen, viele haben tätliche Übergriffe erlebt“, erzählt Günther Schwegl, der Geschäftsführer des Hauses.
Joschka Fischer seinerseits wurde zwei Jahrzehnte später von seinen eigenen Parteifreunden tätlich angegriffen, weil er sich für militärische Interventionen aus humanitären Motiven – man prägte dafür den Begriff des „Menschenrechtsbellizismus“ – ausgesprochen hatte.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tätlich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.