teurevsturaConfusable pair

Quick tell: teure is a adjective, tura is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“teure” is an adjective and “tura” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,118
“teure” frequency rank
#44,297
“tura” frequency rank
51415
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature teure tura
Definition Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs teuer Genitiv Singular des Substantivs tur

Letter map: teure vs tura

Shared letters muted; letters that set teure and tura apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. teure runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against tura's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
teure
4 ch
tura

Role in the sentence - teure and tura

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: teure is anadjective and turaanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51415, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

teure is recorded at frequency rank #7,118, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈtɔɪ̯ʁə]. tura is at rank #44,297, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 51415, this pair ranks #1,136,401 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of teure vs tura

Shared letters: rtu. Private to "teure": e. Private to "tura": a.

"teure" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "tura" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • teure ← eture · tteure · tuere
  • tura ← ttura · tuar · turra · utra

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "teure" and "tura" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "teure" is an adjective and "tura" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "teure" or "tura" show up more?
"teure" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,118 in our German list, against #44,297 for "tura". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "teure" vs "tura" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "teure" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tura" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,136,401 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "teure" and "tura" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs tura". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,136,401 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list