Duisburg
[ˈdyːsbʊʁk]
The verdict
“Duisburg” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,259. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,259
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Großstadt im Ruhrgebiet und in der niederrheinischen Region Nordrhein-Westfalens, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-duisburg · Duisburg · German
Duisburg · rank #4,259 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,259
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dieselbe
Nearest frequency peer: dieselbe (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Duisburg“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- content
content
95,745 corpus weight
- dauerhaft
dauerhaft
95,744 corpus weight
- dieselbe
dieselbe
95,743 corpus weight
- Duisburg
Duisburg
95,742 corpus weight
- durchschnit…
durchschnittlich
95,741 corpus weight
- eBay
eBay
95,740 corpus weight
What this shows „Duisburg“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duisburg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈdyːsbʊʁk] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Duisburg“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Duisburg (IPA [ˈdyːsbʊʁk]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,259 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Duisburg, with forms such as "dduisburg", "diusburg", and "duibsurg". 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, "Duisburger", "Dieburg", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Duisburg, spelled D-U-I-S-B-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1Großstadt im Ruhrgebiet und in der niederrheinischen Region Nordrhein-Westfalens, Deutschland
- 2ehemalige Gemeinde in Belgien, heute ein Stadtteil der belgischen Stadt Tervuren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Duisburg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieser Zug hält nicht in Duisburg.
Duisburg, Tervuren, Vossem und Moorsel bilden das heutige Tervuren.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dduisburg
- diusburg
- duibsurg
- duisbburg
- duisbrug
- duisbugr
- duisburgg
- duisburrg
- duissburg
- duisubrg
- dusiburg
- udisburg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Duisburg - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Duisburg", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).