runs
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,182
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
runs is aGermanverb. It means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs run Pronounced [ɹʌnz]. Often confused with Rus and Ruth.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | runs |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɹʌnz] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for runs is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɹʌnz]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,182 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs run".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for runs, with forms such as "rnus", "rruns", and "runns". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rus", "Ruth", "Rute", 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 runs, spelled R-U-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs run
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rnus,rruns,runns,runss,rusn,urns
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for runs
Misspelling Variants of "runs"
Frequency rank: #40,182 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our German index: