tausend Tode sterben
The verdict
“tausend Tode sterben” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: extreme Angst, Panik haben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tausend Tode sterben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈtaʊ̯zn̩t ˈtoːdə ˈʃtɛʁbm̩] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tausend Tode sterben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for tausend Tode sterben is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtaʊ̯zn̩t ˈtoːdə ˈʃtɛʁbm̩]. 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: "extreme Angst, Panik haben".
No misspelling variants are generated for tausend Tode sterben 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 tausend Tode sterben, spelled T-A-U-S-E-N-D- -T-O-D-E- -S-T-E-R-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1extreme Angst, Panik haben
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- The one correct German spelling is T-A-U-S-E-N-D- -T-O-D-E- -S-T-E-R-B-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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