Tollwut

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Tollwut is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtɔlˌvuːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,184 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine hochgefährliche, meist tödlich endende Virusinfektion, die zum Beispiel durch einen Biss von Tieren (Hund, Fuchs) auch auf den Menschen übertragen werden kann".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tollwut, with forms such as "otllwut", "tlolwut", and "tolluwt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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 Tollwut, spelled T-O-L-L-W-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.