schürt
[ʃyːɐ̯t]
The verdict
“schürt” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #33,284. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,284
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schüren
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 | schürt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃyːɐ̯t] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “schürt” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around schürt (IPA [ʃyːɐ̯t]), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,284 among 107,600 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for schürt, with forms such as "cshürt", "scchürt", and "schhürt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "shut", "shirt", "spürt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is schürt, spelled S-C-H-Ü-R-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schüren
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schüren
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schüren
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshürt,scchürt,schhürt,schrüt,schürrt,schürtt,schütr,scührt,shcürt,sschürt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schürt - 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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Using “schürt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-Ü-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʃyːɐ̯t] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “shut” - see the side-by-side comparison. schürt vs shut
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.