Zwangserkrankung
[ˈt͡svaŋsʔɛɐ̯ˌkʁaŋkʊŋ]
The verdict
“Zwangserkrankung” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - psychische Krankheit, bei der Zwangsgedanken und/oder Zwangshandlungen auftreten
Corpus desk
Index DE-zwangserkrankung · Zwangserkrankung · German
Zwangserkrankung · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Z" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zwangserkrankung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡svaŋsʔɛɐ̯ˌkʁaŋkʊŋ] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Zwangserkrankung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Zwangserkrankung is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt͡svaŋsʔɛɐ̯ˌkʁaŋkʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "psychische Krankheit, bei der Zwangsgedanken und/oder Zwangshandlungen auftreten".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Zwangserkrankung, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Zwangserkrankung, spelled Z-W-A-N-G-S-E-R-K-R-A-N-K-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1psychische Krankheit, bei der Zwangsgedanken und/oder Zwangshandlungen auftreten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zwangserkrankung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Anne Katrin Külz, Diplompsychologin und Psychotherapeutin an der Universitätsklinik Freiburg, weist darauf hin, dass sich der veränderte Gehirnstoffwechsel bei Zwangserkrankungen auch auf die geistige Leistungsfähigkeit des Menschen auswirken kann.“
„Die Ursachen einer Zwangserkrankung sind zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt noch nicht vollständig erforscht.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.