How to do Control+Backspace on standard USB Keyboard? At work we use Macbooks, so I am trying to adapt :)

I am using to many things, one of them is doing Ctrl+Delete in Mac OSX (In IntelliJ IDEA).

What I expect to happen, that works in Windows and on another external keyboard (Mac one!) is that when you press ctrl+delete, the left most word is deleted.

This does not happen on Mac, I could not find any other key combination to do this.
I need to functionality to quickly move around my code, please help.
My Mac version is 10.12.5
The keyboard shortcut to delete the word to the left of the insertion point is, on a Mac keyboard:

OptionDelete



On a Windows keyboard use:
AltBackspace


I use both Windows and macOS on a regular basis and noticed that some keyboard shortcuts that use Control in Windows work with Option in macOS, for example:

Delete the word to the left/right of the insertion point: 


Windows: ControlBackspace / ControlDelete   
macOS:  OptionDelete / Optiondelete⌦


[On keyboards that don't have delete⌦ (Forward Delete) use FnDelete instead.]

Move the insertion point to the beginning/end of the previous word:


Windows: ControlLeft Arrow / ControlRight Arrow  
macOS:  OptionLeft Arrow / OptionRight Arrow  


Extend text selection to the beginning/end of the current word:


Windows: ShiftControlLeft Arrow / ShiftControlRight Arrow  
macOS:  ShiftOptionLeft Arrow / ShiftOptionRight Arrow  


Please refer to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 for a complete list of keyboard shortcuts (scroll down to the Document shortcuts section for the juicy stuff).