Kreuzer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,111
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
Kreuzer is aGermannoun. It means: schnelles, mittelgroßes, leicht gepanzertes Kriegsschiff Pronounced [ˈkʁɔɪ̯t͡sɐ]. Often confused with Krüger and kreuzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kreuzer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʁɔɪ̯t͡sɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kreuzer is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkʁɔɪ̯t͡sɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,111 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Kreuzer, with forms such as "keruzer", "kkreuzer", and "kreuezr". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Krüger", "kreuzt", "Kreuzes", 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 Kreuzer, spelled K-R-E-U-Z-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1schnelles, mittelgroßes, leicht gepanzertes Kriegsschiff
- 2kleine Münze, früher in Deutschland und Österreich-Ungarn
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: keruzer,kkreuzer,kreuezr,kreuzerr,kreuzre,kreuzzer,krezuer,krreuzer,kruezer,rkeuzer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Kreuzer
Misspelling Variants of "Kreuzer"
Frequency rank: #14,111 in German
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