tragisch
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,606
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
tragisch is anGermanadj. It means: unausweichlich eine schlimme Entwicklung nehmend Pronounced [ˈtʁaːɡɪʃ]. Often confused with tratsch and tragische.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tragisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈtʁaːɡɪʃ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for tragisch is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtʁaːɡɪʃ]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,606 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tragisch, with forms such as "rtagisch", "targisch", and "traggisch". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "tratsch", "tragische", "tragischen", 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 tragisch, spelled T-R-A-G-I-S-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1unausweichlich eine schlimme Entwicklung nehmend
- 2beim Beobachter, Zeugen Mitleid erregend
- 3zur Tragödie gehörend, mit Bezug auf eine einzelne Tragödie oder die dramatische Gattung Tragödie
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtagisch,targisch,traggisch,tragicsh,tragiscch,tragischh,tragishc,tragissch,tragsich,traigsch,trgaisch,trragisch,ttragisch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "tragisch"
Frequency rank: #12,606 in German
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