Skulptur
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,173
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Skulptur is aGermannoun. It means: Gattung der Bildhauerei, die sich mit dreidimensionalen Werken befasst, die aus festem Material mittels eines subtraktiven Verfahrens (Abtragen, Ausstechen, Aushöhlen) geschaffen wurden Pronounced [ˌskʊlpˈtuːɐ̯]. Often confused with Skulpturen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Skulptur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌskʊlpˈtuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Skulptur is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌskʊlpˈtuːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,173 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for Skulptur, with forms such as "ksulptur", "skkulptur", and "skluptur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Skulpturen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Skulptur, spelled S-K-U-L-P-T-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gattung der Bildhauerei, die sich mit dreidimensionalen Werken befasst, die aus festem Material mittels eines subtraktiven Verfahrens (Abtragen, Ausstechen, Aushöhlen) geschaffen wurden
- 2dreidimensionales Kunstwerk, das aus festem Material (Stein oder Ähnlichem) besteht und das durch Abtragen, Ausstechen oder Aushöhlen geschaffen wurde
- 3jede Art von dreidimensionalem Kunstwerk, dass bildhauerisch geschaffen wurde (Plastik oder Skulptur)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ksulptur,skkulptur,skluptur,skullptur,skulpptur,skulptru,skulpttur,skulpturr,skulputr,skultpur,skupltur,sskulptur,suklptur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Skulptur
Misspelling Variants of "Skulptur"
Frequency rank: #12,173 in German
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