Schürze
[ˈʃʏʁt͡sə]
The verdict
“Schürze” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,924
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ein Kleidungsstück, welches man über der restlichen Kleidung trägt, um diese vor Schmutz zu schützen
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 | Schürze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃʏʁt͡sə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schürze” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Schürze (IPA [ˈʃʏʁt͡sə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,924 among 107,600 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schürze, with forms such as "cshürze", "scchürze", and "schhürze". 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, "Schutz", "Stürze", "schützt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Schürze, spelled S-C-H-Ü-R-Z-E.
Definition
- 1ein Kleidungsstück, welches man über der restlichen Kleidung trägt, um diese vor Schmutz zu schützen
- 2ein Schutzgehäuse bei technischen Geräten
- 3ein schürzen-ähnliches Kleidungsstück zum Schutz vor radioaktiver Strahlung
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshürze
- scchürze
- schhürze
- schrüze
- schürez
- schürrze
- schürzze
- schüzre
- scührze
- shcürze
- sschürze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schürze - 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 “Schürze”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-Ü-R-Z-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃʏʁt͡sə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Schutz” - see the side-by-side comparison. Schürze vs Schutz
- 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.