Todesanzeige
[ˈtoːdəsˌʔant͡saɪ̯ɡə]
The verdict
“Todesanzeige” is uncommon German (frequency #63,844 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,844
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anzeige, mit der der Tod einer Person öffentlich mitgeteilt wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-todesanzeige · Todesanzeige · German
Todesanzeige · rank #63,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,844
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Titelkampf
Nearest frequency peer: Titelkampf (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Todesanzeige“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- tieferes
tieferes
36,160 corpus weight
- tigris
tigris
36,159 corpus weight
- Titelkampf
Titelkampf
36,158 corpus weight
- Todesanzeige
Todesanzeige
36,157 corpus weight
- Todsünde
Todsünde
36,156 corpus weight
- Tokens
Tokens
36,155 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Todesanzeige“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Todesanzeige |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtoːdəsˌʔant͡saɪ̯ɡə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #63,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Todesanzeige“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Todesanzeige is uncommon German at frequency #63,844 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtoːdəsˌʔant͡saɪ̯ɡə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Todesanzeige in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct German form is Todesanzeige, spelled T-O-D-E-S-A-N-Z-E-I-G-E.
Definition
- 1Anzeige, mit der der Tod einer Person öffentlich mitgeteilt wird
- 2gedruckte briefliche Mitteilung über den Tod einer Person
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Todesanzeige appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bei den Todesanzeigen ist bei mir der Groschen gefallen.“
„Die unfreiwillige Komik bei Todesanzeigen und Grabinschriften beruht darauf, daß Tod und Sterben ohnehin Grenzsitutionen, Extremfälle sind, zu denen daher besonders leicht auch komische Kontraste hergestellt werden können.“
Synonyms
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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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).