Sorge
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,940
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Sorge is aGermannoun. It means: bedrückendes Gefühl der Unruhe und Angst, durch eine unangenehme und/oder gefahrvolle Situation hervorgerufen Pronounced [ˈzɔʁɡə]. It ranks #1,940 in German word frequency. Often confused with Sure and Strg.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sorge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɔʁɡə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sorge is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzɔʁɡə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,940 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sorge, with forms such as "osrge", "sogre", and "soreg". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Sure", "Strg", "sort", and more, 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 Sorge, spelled S-O-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bedrückendes Gefühl der Unruhe und Angst, durch eine unangenehme und/oder gefahrvolle Situation hervorgerufen
- 2Bemühen um die als positiv empfundene Entwicklung einer Situation, speziell um das Wohlergehen eines anderen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osrge,sogre,soreg,sorgge,sorrge,sroge,ssorge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Sorge
Misspelling Variants of "Sorge"
Frequency rank: #1,940 in German
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