töten
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,083
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
töten is aGermanverb. It means: einem Menschen oder einem Tier gewaltsam das Leben nehmen Pronounced [ˈtøːtn̩]. It ranks #3,083 in German word frequency. Often confused with Tüte and town.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | töten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈtøːtn̩] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for töten is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtøːtn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,083 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "einem Menschen oder einem Tier gewaltsam das Leben nehmen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for töten, with forms such as "ttöen", "ttöten", and "töetn". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tüte", "town", "toto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 töten, spelled T-Ö-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einem Menschen oder einem Tier gewaltsam das Leben nehmen
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Also misspelled as: ttöen,ttöten,töetn,tötenn,tötne,tötten,ötten
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Misspelling Variants of "töten"
Frequency rank: #3,083 in German
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