dürftig
[ˈdʏʁftɪç]
The verdict
“dürftig” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #28,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,613
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - materielle Armut bezeugend, ärmlich, karg
Corpus desk
Index DE-durftig · dürftig · German
dürftig · rank #28,613 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,613
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH durchsetzte
Nearest frequency peer: durchsetzte (-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 „dürftig“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Dozentin
Dozentin
71,391 corpus weight
- durchqueren
durchqueren
71,390 corpus weight
- durchsetzte
durchsetzte
71,389 corpus weight
- dürftig
dürftig
71,388 corpus weight
- egg
egg
71,387 corpus weight
- Eigeninitia…
Eigeninitiative
71,386 corpus weight
What this shows „dürftig“ 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 | dürftig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈdʏʁftɪç] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „dürftig“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dürftig (IPA [ˈdʏʁftɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,613 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dürftig, with forms such as "ddürftig", "drüftig", and "düfrtig". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "durstig", "dürft", "durfte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is dürftig, spelled D-Ü-R-F-T-I-G.
Definition
- 1materielle Armut bezeugend, ärmlich, karg
- 2für einen bestimmten Zweck nicht ausreichend oder genügend
- 3schwächlich, schmächtig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dürftig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Einrichtung ist noch ziemlich dürftig.
„Die Prämie für den Sieg in der Qualifikation in Garmisch-Partenkirchen fiel für die Skispringerinnen dürftig aus.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddürftig
- drüftig
- düfrtig
- dürfftig
- dürfitg
- dürftgi
- dürftigg
- dürfttig
- dürrftig
- dürtfig
- üdrftig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dürftig - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "dürftig", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).