sturen

[ˈʃtuːʁən]

/[ˈʃtuːʁən]/ adj

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The verdict

“sturen” is uncommon German (frequency #93,671 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,671
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur

Corpus desk

Index DE-sturen · sturen · German

sturen · rank #93,671 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,671
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH stylish

Nearest frequency peer: stylish (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „sturen“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sturen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sturen
PropertyValue
Headwordsturen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈʃtuːʁən]
Letters6
Frequency rank#93,671
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „sturen“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).sturenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „stylish“ (#93,672), „Stromnetzes“ (#93,669), „Streckenabschnitte“ (#93,668). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „sturen“ bei #93,671. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sturen is uncommon German at frequency #93,671 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃtuːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 12 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sturen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is sturen, spelled S-T-U-R-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
  2. 2
    Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
  3. 3
    Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
  4. 4
    Dativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
  5. 5
    Genitiv Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
  6. 6
    Dativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
  7. 7
    Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
  8. 8
    Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
  9. 9
    Genitiv Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
  10. 10
    Dativ Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
  11. 11
    Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
  12. 12
    Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sturen"?
"sturen" is spelled S-T-U-R-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃtuːʁən].
What does "sturen" mean?
As an adjective, "sturen" means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stur
How do you pronounce "sturen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sturen" is [ˈʃtuːʁən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sturen" come from?
"sturen" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sturen", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

starks#93,648stader#93,641Squire#93,636signed#93,593

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list