tatütata
[taˈtyːtaˈtaː]
The verdict
“tatütata” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Geräusch eines Martinshorns
Corpus desk
Index DE-tatutata · tatütata · German
tatütata · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tatütata |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [taˈtyːtaˈtaː] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tatütata“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tatütata is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [taˈtyːtaˈtaː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Geräusch eines Martinshorns".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tatütata, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 tatütata, spelled T-A-T-Ü-T-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Geräusch eines Martinshorns
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tatütata appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tatütata! Die Feuerwehr ist da!
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.