Eggcorns (Wikipedia / YouTube video by RobWords) are language mistakes that sometimes take over and change the spelling and perhaps even the meaning of a word. This is rare in German because there’s fewer homophones but in this episode of Wort der Woche, DW explains how “munttot” became “mundtot”. Available as audio or transcript.


Two here:
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=59418
There is also Armbrust (crossbow) which comes from arcubalista but literally means arm + chest