spüre
[ˈʃpyːʁə]
The verdict
“spüre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,758. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,758
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spüren
Corpus desk
Index DE-spure · spüre · German
spüre · rank #11,758 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,758
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 107,600
- PHOTO-FINISH späte
Nearest frequency peer: späte (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “spüre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Speck
Speck
88,246 corpus weight
- Spezialist
Spezialist
88,245 corpus weight
- späte
späte
88,244 corpus weight
- spüre
spüre
88,243 corpus weight
- starren
starren
88,242 corpus weight
- Strömungen
Strömungen
88,241 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “spüre” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | spüre |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃpyːʁə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “spüre” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around spüre (IPA [ˈʃpyːʁə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,758 among 107,600 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for spüre, with forms such as "psüre", "sppüre", and "sprüe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sur", "Sue", "Sure", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is spüre, spelled S-P-Ü-R-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spüren
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spüren
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spüren
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spüren
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psüre
- sppüre
- sprüe
- spüer
- spürre
- sspüre
- süpre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spüre - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "spüre", 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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.