Sirius
[ˈziːʁiʊs]
The verdict
“Sirius” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,627. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,627
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der im Winter links unterhalb des Orion-Sternbildes sichtbare hellste Fixstern des Himmels
Corpus desk
Index DE-sirius · Sirius · German
Sirius · rank #36,627 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,627
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sinus
Nearest frequency peer: Sinus (-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 „Sirius“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sieber
Sieber
63,377 corpus weight
- Simbabwe
Simbabwe
63,376 corpus weight
- Sinus
Sinus
63,375 corpus weight
- Sirius
Sirius
63,374 corpus weight
- Skandals
Skandals
63,373 corpus weight
- Sohns
Sohns
63,371 corpus weight
What this shows „Sirius“ 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 | Sirius |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈziːʁiʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Sirius“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Sirius (IPA [ˈziːʁiʊs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,627 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "der im Winter links unterhalb des Orion-Sternbildes sichtbare hellste Fixstern des Himmels".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sirius, with forms such as "isrius", "siirus", and "sirisu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Sirup", "Sixtus", "Spiritus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Sirius, spelled S-I-R-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1der im Winter links unterhalb des Orion-Sternbildes sichtbare hellste Fixstern des Himmels
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sirius appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sirius ist mit 8,8 Lichtjahren Entfernung einer der nächsten Fixsterne.
„Und da die Schöpfung harmonisch ist, müßten die Bewohner des Sirius riesenhaft groß, die des Mars von mittlerem Wuchs und die der Venus ganz klein sein.“
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isrius
- siirus
- sirisu
- siriuss
- sirrius
- siruis
- sriius
- ssirius
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sirius - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Sirius", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).