toter Briefkasten
[ˌtoːtɐ ˈbʁiːfˌkastn̩]
The verdict
“toter Briefkasten” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — sondersprachlich (Jargon etlicher Geheim- und Nachrichtendienste); „konspirativ angelegtes Versteck, das der Übermittlung von Informationen, Dokumenten, finanziellen und technischen Mitteln dient, ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toter Briefkasten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌtoːtɐ ˈbʁiːfˌkastn̩] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “toter Briefkasten” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for toter Briefkasten is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌtoːtɐ ˈbʁiːfˌkastn̩]. 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: "sondersprachlich (Jargon etlicher Geheim- und Nachrichtendienste); „konspirativ angelegtes Versteck, das der Übermittlung von Informationen, Dokumenten, finanziellen und technischen Mitteln dient, ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for toter Briefkasten 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 toter Briefkasten, spelled T-O-T-E-R- -B-R-I-E-F-K-A-S-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sondersprachlich (Jargon etlicher Geheim- und Nachrichtendienste); „konspirativ angelegtes Versteck, das der Übermittlung von Informationen, Dokumenten, finanziellen und technischen Mitteln dient, ohne daß sich die Benutzer des Versteckes begegnen oder kennenlernen“
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- The one correct German spelling is T-O-T-E-R- -B-R-I-E-F-K-A-S-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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