Erzgebirge
The verdict
“Erzgebirge” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #15,876 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #15,876
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Gebirge in Mitteleuropa im Südosten Deutschlands und im Nordwesten Tschechiens; Sächsisches Erzgebirge (dieses ist aber sehr selten in Gebrauch, nur in Zusammenhang mit dem Slowakischen Erzgebirge ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erzgebirge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈeːɐ̯t͡sɡəˌbɪʁɡə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #15,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Erzgebirge” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Erzgebirge is 10 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeːɐ̯t͡sɡəˌbɪʁɡə]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,876 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gebirge in Mitteleuropa im Südosten Deutschlands und im Nordwesten Tschechiens; Sächsisches Erzgebirge (dieses ist aber sehr selten in Gebrauch, nur in Zusammenhang mit dem Slowakischen Erzgebirge ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Erzgebirge, with forms such as "ergzebirge", "errzgebirge", and "erzegbirge". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Erzgebirge, spelled E-R-Z-G-E-B-I-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gebirge in Mitteleuropa im Südosten Deutschlands und im Nordwesten Tschechiens; Sächsisches Erzgebirge (dieses ist aber sehr selten in Gebrauch, nur in Zusammenhang mit dem Slowakischen Erzgebirge Slovenské rudohorie)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ergzebirge,errzgebirge,erzegbirge,erzgbeirge,erzgebbirge,erzgebigre,erzgebireg,erzgebirgge,erzgebirrge,erzgebrige,erzgeibrge,erzggebirge,erzzgebirge,ezrgebirge,rezgebirge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Erzgebirge — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Erzgebirge"
Frequency rank: #15,876 in German
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Using “Erzgebirge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-R-Z-G-E-B-I-R-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈeːɐ̯t͡sɡəˌbɪʁɡə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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