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
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Kleidungsstück, welches man über der restlichen Kleidung trägt, um diese vor Schmutz zu schützen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schurze · Schürze · German
Schürze · rank #27,924 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,924
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schütte
Nearest frequency peer: Schütte (+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 „Schürze“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schwarzenbe…
Schwarzenberg
72,080 corpus weight
- schweigend
schweigend
72,079 corpus weight
- Schürze
Schürze
72,077 corpus weight
- Schütte
Schütte
72,076 corpus weight
- sehnsüchtig
sehnsüchtig
72,075 corpus weight
- Sekten
Sekten
72,074 corpus weight
What this shows „Schürze“ 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 | 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) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schürze“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Schürze (IPA [ˈʃʏʁt͡sə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,924 among 8,027 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schürze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei der Hausarbeit tragen viele Frauen eine Schürze über der restlichen Kleidung.
An der Schleife der Schürze von Dirndlkleidern erkennt man angeblich den ehelichen Status der Trägerin.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Schürze", 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).