tote Sprache
[ˈtoːtə ˈʃpʁaːxə]
The verdict
“tote Sprache” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Bezeichnung für eine Sprache, die derzeit (zum Zeitpunkt der Äußerung) in keiner Sprachgemeinschaft mehr als Muttersprache verwendet wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tote Sprache |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈtoːtə ˈʃpʁaːxə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tote Sprache” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for tote Sprache is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtoːtə ˈʃpʁaːxə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bezeichnung für eine Sprache, die derzeit (zum Zeitpunkt der Äußerung) in keiner Sprachgemeinschaft mehr als Muttersprache verwendet wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for tote Sprache in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 tote Sprache, spelled T-O-T-E- -S-P-R-A-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bezeichnung für eine Sprache, die derzeit (zum Zeitpunkt der Äußerung) in keiner Sprachgemeinschaft mehr als Muttersprache verwendet wird
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Using “tote Sprache”
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- The one correct German spelling is T-O-T-E- -S-P-R-A-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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