source
[suʀs]
The verdict
“source” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,633. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,633
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aus der Erde kommendes Wasser
Corpus desk
Index DE-source · source · German
source · rank #9,633 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,633
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sollt
Nearest frequency peer: sollt (-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 „source“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- sendet
sendet
90,371 corpus weight
- solar
solar
90,370 corpus weight
- sollt
sollt
90,369 corpus weight
- source
source
90,368 corpus weight
- Spezies
Spezies
90,367 corpus weight
- Stasi
Stasi
90,366 corpus weight
What this shows „source“ 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 | source |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [suʀs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „source“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around source (IPA [suʀs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,633 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for source, with forms such as "osurce", "soruce", and "soucre". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Sure", "spüre", "Stürme", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is source, spelled S-O-U-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1aus der Erde kommendes Wasser
- 2Grund oder Grundlage des Folgenden oder Weiteren
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osurce
- soruce
- soucre
- sourcce
- sourec
- sourrce
- ssource
- suorce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of source - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "source", 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).