sry
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The verdict
“sry” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,063) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,063
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kurz für sorry – ‚tut mir leid‘
Corpus desk
Index DE-sry · sry · German
sry · rank #20,063 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,063
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spätsommer
Nearest frequency peer: Spätsommer (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „sry“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „sry“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | sry |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sry“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sry is neighbouring look-alikes ("SV", "SS", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced […]. Frequency #20,063 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "kurz für sorry – ‚tut mir leid‘".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sry, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SV", "SS", "SZ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is sry, spelled S-R-Y.
Definition
- 1kurz für sorry – ‚tut mir leid‘
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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