Todesstrafe

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The German entry for Todesstrafe is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtoːdəsˌʃtʁaːfə]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,797 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "gesetzlich legitimierte Tötung eines Menschen als Strafe für ein Verbrechen, dessen er für schuldig befunden wurde".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for Todesstrafe, with forms such as "otdesstrafe", "tdoesstrafe", and "toddesstrafe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 Todesstrafe, spelled T-O-D-E-S-S-T-R-A-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.