Natur
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#998
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
Natur is aGermannoun. It means: Welt der Natur (im Gegensatz zu der durch den Menschen geschaffenen Welt der Kultur) Pronounced [naˈtuːɐ̯]. It ranks #998 in German word frequency. Often confused with nur and Notar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Natur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [naˈtuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Natur is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [naˈtuːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #998 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Natur, with forms such as "antur", "natru", and "nattur". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "nur", "Notar", "nature", 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 Natur, spelled N-A-T-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Welt der Natur (im Gegensatz zu der durch den Menschen geschaffenen Welt der Kultur)
- 2Gebiet, in das der Mensch überhaupt nicht oder nur wenig gestaltend und verändernd eingegriffen hat
- 3geistige, seelische oder körperliche Charakteristika und Eigenheiten von Personen oder Tieren beziehungsweise deren gesamtes Wesen
- 4generelle Beschaffenheit einer Sache oder eines Sachverhaltes
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: antur,natru,nattur,naturr,nautr,nnatur,ntaur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Natur
Misspelling Variants of "Natur"
Frequency rank: #998 in German
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