Klerus
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,479
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Klerus is aGermannoun. It means: die Gesamtheit der Geistlichen (Kleriker) Pronounced [ˈkleːʁʊs]. Often confused with Klaus and Kerns.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Klerus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkleːʁʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Klerus is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkleːʁʊs]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,479 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Gesamtheit der Geistlichen (Kleriker)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Klerus, with forms such as "kelrus", "kklerus", and "klerrus". 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 also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Klaus", "Kerns", "klares", 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 Klerus, spelled K-L-E-R-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Gesamtheit der Geistlichen (Kleriker)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kelrus,kklerus,klerrus,klersu,kleruss,kleurs,kllerus,klreus,lkerus
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Klerus
Misspelling Variants of "Klerus"
Frequency rank: #26,479 in German
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