Storch
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,244
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
Storch is aGermannoun. It means: (vornehmlich in feuchten Niederungen Nord- und Mitteleuropas lebender und oft auf Bäumen und Hausdächern nistender) großer, kräftiger, langhalsiger Stelzvogel (Ciconia) mit weißem und (braun)schwar... Pronounced [ʃtɔʁç]. Often confused with story and stört.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Storch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃtɔʁç] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Storch is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃtɔʁç]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,244 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Storch, with forms such as "sotrch", "sstorch", and "stocrh". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "story", "stört", "store", 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 Storch, spelled S-T-O-R-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(vornehmlich in feuchten Niederungen Nord- und Mitteleuropas lebender und oft auf Bäumen und Hausdächern nistender) großer, kräftiger, langhalsiger Stelzvogel (Ciconia) mit weißem und (braun)schwarzem Gefieder, einem sehr langen, zumeist roten Schnabel und langen, roten Beinen, der im Herbst nach Afrika und Indien zieht
- 2eine Vogelfamilie (Ciconiidae), die nicht nur in den Tropen und den Subtropen, sondern bis in die gemäßigten Zonen verbreitet ist
- 3langbeinige Person
- 4Persönlichkeit von hohem gesellschaftlichen Rang
- 5altes Auto
- 6Hebamme
- 7Namibia, Mädchen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sotrch,sstorch,stocrh,storcch,storchh,storhc,storrch,stroch,sttorch,tsorch
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Storch
Misspelling Variants of "Storch"
Frequency rank: #13,244 in German
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