Todesrate
[ˈtoːdəsˌʁaːtə]
The verdict
“Todesrate” is uncommon German (frequency #96,371 among 35,386 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,371
- frequency rank, German
- 35,386
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Anzahl derjenigen Personen einer untersuchten Gruppe, die sterben (Todesfälle, oft bezogen auf 1 Jahr und 1.000/100.000 Personen, Rate)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Todesrate |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtoːdəsˌʁaːtə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Todesrate” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Todesrate is uncommon German at frequency #96,371 among 35,386 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtoːdəsˌʁaːtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Anzahl derjenigen Personen einer untersuchten Gruppe, die sterben (Todesfälle, oft bezogen auf 1 Jahr und 1.000/100.000 Personen, Rate)".
Zero misspellings are on record for Todesrate in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Todesrate, spelled T-O-D-E-S-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Anzahl derjenigen Personen einer untersuchten Gruppe, die sterben (Todesfälle, oft bezogen auf 1 Jahr und 1.000/100.000 Personen, Rate)
Antonyms
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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Using “Todesrate”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-O-D-E-S-R-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.