Tobsucht
[ˈtoːpˌzʊxt]
The verdict
“Tobsucht” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - psychische Störung, die sich in übermäßigem Zorn äußert
Corpus desk
Index DE-tobsucht · Tobsucht · German
Tobsucht · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | Tobsucht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtoːpˌzʊxt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Tobsucht“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Tobsucht is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtoːpˌzʊxt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "psychische Störung, die sich in übermäßigem Zorn äußert".
Tobsucht doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Tobsucht, spelled T-O-B-S-U-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1psychische Störung, die sich in übermäßigem Zorn äußert
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tobsucht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Seine Wutanfälle, sein chronisches Vergeltungsbedürfnis, dessen erreichbares Opfer seine Frau war, artete nie in Tobsucht aus, soviel wir wissen.“
„Ihr Mann hatte lange mit Dingen aus seiner Vergangenheit zu kämpfen und ein Alkoholproblem, und Tove fürchtete, er könne den Halt verlieren, wieder zu trinken beginnen, Anfälle von Tobsucht und Selbstmitleid bekommen, wenn sie ihn verließe.“
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.