Tötung
[ˈtøːtʊŋ]
The verdict
“Tötung” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,955
- frequency rank, German
- 35,386
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - der Akt des Tötens
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tötung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtøːtʊŋ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tötung” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Tötung (IPA [ˈtøːtʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,955 among 35,386 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "der Akt des Tötens".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tötung, with forms such as "ttötung", "ttöung", and "tötnug". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tung", "Tötungen", "töten", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Tötung, spelled T-Ö-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1der Akt des Tötens
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ttötung,ttöung,tötnug,töttung,tötugn,tötungg,tötunng,töutng,öttung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tötung - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Tötung”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-Ö-T-U-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈtøːtʊŋ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tung” - see the side-by-side comparison. Tötung vs tung
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.