Fuchs
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,704
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
Fuchs is aGermannoun. It means: Vertreter einer Gruppe von bestimmten kurzbeinigen Arten der Familie der Hunde (Canidae) Pronounced [fʊks]. It ranks #4,704 in German word frequency. Often confused with fürs and fuhr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fuchs |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fʊks] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Fuchs is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fʊks]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,704 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Fuchs, with forms such as "fcuhs", "ffuchs", and "fucchs". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "fürs", "fuhr", "fuck", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Fuchs, spelled F-U-C-H-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vertreter einer Gruppe von bestimmten kurzbeinigen Arten der Familie der Hunde (Canidae)
- 2männlicher Fuchs^([1])
- 3meist der Rotfuchs, Vulpes vulpes
- 4Pelz des Fuchses
- 5Pferd, bei dem Fell, Mähne und Schweif braun sind
- 6Tagfalter („Kleiner Fuchs“, „Großer Fuchs“)
- 7ein kluger Mensch („schlauer Fuchs“)
- 8ein angehendes Mitglied einer Studentenverbindung
- 9eine Goldmünze
- 10eine Form des Sonnenbrandes an Blättern
- 11der Abzugskanal einer Feuerung zum Schornstein
- 12der Sender bei einer Fuchsjagd
- 1350 DM; inzwischen 50 €
- 14Rothaariger
- 15ein Rekrut in der Grundausbildung
- 16Farbe mit einem zusätzlichen Rotton
- 17die Spielkarte Karo Ass beim Kartenspiel Doppelkopf
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fcuhs,ffuchs,fucchs,fuchhs,fuchss,fucsh,fuhcs,ufchs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Fuchs"
Frequency rank: #4,704 in German
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