kursieren
[kʊʁˈziːʁən]
The verdict
“kursieren” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,286. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,286
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich immer weiter verbreiten
Corpus desk
Index DE-kursieren · kursieren · German
kursieren · rank #35,286 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,286
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kurpark
Nearest frequency peer: Kurpark (-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 „kursieren“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Kreuzigung
Kreuzigung
64,720 corpus weight
- Kundendaten
Kundendaten
64,718 corpus weight
- Kurhaus
Kurhaus
64,717 corpus weight
- Kurpark
Kurpark
64,716 corpus weight
- kursieren
kursieren
64,715 corpus weight
- Königswinter
Königswinter
64,713 corpus weight
What this shows „kursieren“ 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 | kursieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kʊʁˈziːʁən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „kursieren“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around kursieren (IPA [kʊʁˈziːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,286 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sich immer weiter verbreiten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for kursieren, with forms such as "kkursieren", "krusieren", and "kuriseren". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "kürzeren", "kursiert", "kreieren", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 kursieren, spelled K-U-R-S-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich immer weiter verbreiten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kursieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Noch kursiert das Schreiben nur in den Landesregierungen.“
„Mittlerweile befanden sich mehr als einhundert Exemplare des Buches im Dorf, kursierten zwischen den Häusern und wurden von jedem, der lesen konnte, gelesen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kkursieren
- krusieren
- kuriseren
- kurrsieren
- kurseiren
- kursieern
- kursierenn
- kursierne
- kursierren
- kursireen
- kurssieren
- kusrieren
- ukrsieren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kursieren - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "kursieren", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).