stürzen
[ˈʃtʏʁt͡sn̩]
The verdict
“stürzen” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,362. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,362
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine hilflose, ungewollte Bewegung nach unten ausführen
Corpus desk
Index DE-sturzen · stürzen · German
stürzen · rank #6,362 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,362
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stuttgarter
Nearest frequency peer: Stuttgarter (-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 „stürzen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Stirn
Stirn
93,642 corpus weight
- Stuttgarter
Stuttgarter
93,640 corpus weight
- stürzen
stürzen
93,639 corpus weight
- SZ
SZ
93,638 corpus weight
- Tasse
Tasse
93,637 corpus weight
- Tobias
Tobias
93,636 corpus weight
What this shows „stürzen“ 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 | stürzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʏʁt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „stürzen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around stürzen (IPA [ˈʃtʏʁt͡sn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,362 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for stürzen, with forms such as "sstürzen", "strüzen", and "sttürzen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stürzt", "surfen", "Stütze", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is stürzen, spelled S-T-Ü-R-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine hilflose, ungewollte Bewegung nach unten ausführen
- 2absichtlich zum Fallen bringen
- 3etwas umdrehen
- 4stark abnehmen
- 5sich sehr schnell fortbewegen
- 6einen Amtsinhaber oder ein politisches System gegen seinen Willen von der Macht entfernen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stürzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hilfe, ich stürze!
„Es gibt diese Augenblicke, wo man in ein Loch der Sinnlosigkeit stürzt und überlegt, ob nicht alles vertan ist, ob das, was man macht, ein falscher Weg ist.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sstürzen
- strüzen
- sttürzen
- stürezn
- stürrzen
- stürzenn
- stürzne
- stürzzen
- stüzren
- sütrzen
- tsürzen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stürzen - 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 "stürzen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).