stürzen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,362
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
stürzen is aGermanverb. It means: eine hilflose, ungewollte Bewegung nach unten ausführen Pronounced [ˈʃtʏʁt͡sn̩]. It ranks #6,362 in German word frequency. Often confused with stürzt and surfen.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for stürzen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtʏʁt͡sn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,362 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for stürzen, with forms such as "sstürzen", "strüzen", and "sttürzen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stürzt", "surfen", "Stütze", 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 stürzen, spelled S-T-Ü-R-Z-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sstürzen,strüzen,sttürzen,stürezn,stürrzen,stürzenn,stürzne,stürzzen,stüzren,sütrzen,tsürzen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for stürzen
Misspelling Variants of "stürzen"
Frequency rank: #6,362 in German
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