Südkorea
The verdict
“Südkorea” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #8,793 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #8,793
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: auf der Südhälfte der koreanischen Halbinsel gelegener Staat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Südkorea |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈzyːtkoˈʁeːa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Südkorea” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Südkorea is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzyːtkoˈʁeːa]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,793 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "auf der Südhälfte der koreanischen Halbinsel gelegener Staat".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Südkorea, with forms such as "sdükorea", "ssüdkorea", and "süddkorea". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Südkorea, spelled S-Ü-D-K-O-R-E-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1auf der Südhälfte der koreanischen Halbinsel gelegener Staat
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sdükorea,ssüdkorea,süddkorea,südkkorea,südkoera,südkorae,südkorrea,südkroea,südokrea,sükdorea,üsdkorea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Südkorea — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Südkorea"
Frequency rank: #8,793 in German
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Using “Südkorea”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-Ü-D-K-O-R-E-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈzyːtkoˈʁeːa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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