Zustellung

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Zustellung is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡suːˌʃtɛlʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,786 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Überbringung einer Sendung oder eines Schriftstückes, zum Beispiel eines Paketes durch die Post oder eines Briefes durch den Gerichtsvollzieher".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Zustellung, with forms such as "uzstellung", "zsutellung", and "zusetllung". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Zuteilung", "zustellen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Zustellung, spelled Z-U-S-T-E-L-L-U-N-G.