nutzlos
[ˈnʊt͡sloːs]
The verdict
“nutzlos” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,532. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,532
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ohne Nutzen, keinen oder nur sehr wenig Nutzen bringend, zu nichts zu gebrauchen; ohne die angestrebte Wirkung
Corpus desk
Index DE-nutzlos · nutzlos · German
nutzlos · rank #10,532 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,532
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Norman
Nearest frequency peer: Norman (-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 „nutzlos“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Neuwahlen
Neuwahlen
89,472 corpus weight
- Niederländer
Niederländer
89,471 corpus weight
- Norman
Norman
89,470 corpus weight
- nutzlos
nutzlos
89,469 corpus weight
- nähert
nähert
89,468 corpus weight
- Offenheit
Offenheit
89,467 corpus weight
What this shows „nutzlos“ 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 | nutzlos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈnʊt͡sloːs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „nutzlos“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around nutzlos (IPA [ˈnʊt͡sloːs]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,532 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ohne Nutzen, keinen oder nur sehr wenig Nutzen bringend, zu nichts zu gebrauchen; ohne die angestrebte Wirkung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for nutzlos, with forms such as "nnutzlos", "ntuzlos", and "nutlzos". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "nutzlose", "nutzlosen", "Nutzers", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 nutzlos, spelled N-U-T-Z-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1ohne Nutzen, keinen oder nur sehr wenig Nutzen bringend, zu nichts zu gebrauchen; ohne die angestrebte Wirkung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nutzlos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Anstrengungen waren völlig nutzlos.
„Unter den vielen Primaten, die es auf der Welt gibt, kann Rom jenes für sich in Anspruch nehmen, die kürzeste und nutzloseste Untergrundbahn dieser Erde zu besitzen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnutzlos
- ntuzlos
- nutlzos
- nuttzlos
- nutzllos
- nutzloss
- nutzlso
- nutzols
- nutzzlos
- nuztlos
- untzlos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nutzlos - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "nutzlos", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).