Serum
[ˈzeːʁʊm]
The verdict
“Serum” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,407. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,407
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blutserum, ein Bestandteil des Blutes
Corpus desk
Index DE-serum · Serum · German
Serum · rank #20,407 · 7 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,407
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sheriff
Nearest frequency peer: Sheriff (+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 „Serum“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schulungen
Schulungen
79,598 corpus weight
- serbischen
serbischen
79,596 corpus weight
- Serum
Serum
79,594 corpus weight
- Sheriff
Sheriff
79,593 corpus weight
- signifikante
signifikante
79,592 corpus weight
- Sigrid
Sigrid
79,591 corpus weight
What this shows „Serum“ 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 | Serum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzeːʁʊm] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Serum“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Serum (IPA [ˈzeːʁʊm]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,407 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Serum, with forms such as "esrum", "sermu", and "serrum". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "sum", "Strom", "Sirup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Serum, spelled S-E-R-U-M.
Definition
- 1Blutserum, ein Bestandteil des Blutes
- 2Immunserum, Antikörper zum Zwecke einer Schutzimpfung
- 3Gegengift, eine Flüssigkeit, die zur Heilung von Vergiftungen (auch durch Biss- und Stichwunden) eingesetzt wird
- 4zähflüssige Darreichungsform
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Serum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Im Serum finden sich die Antikörper (Agglutinine) Anti-A (a) und Anti-B (ß).
Bei einer passiven Impfung werden nicht Erreger gespritzt, sondern ein Serum mit spezifischen Antikörpern.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrum
- sermu
- serrum
- serumm
- seurm
- sreum
- sserum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Serum - 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 "Serum", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).