sur
[zuːɐ̯]
The verdict
“sur” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,401) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,401
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs suren
Corpus desk
Index DE-sur · sur · German
sur · rank #7,401 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,401
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stürmer
Nearest frequency peer: Stürmer (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „sur“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Stichwort
Stichwort
92,603 corpus weight
- städtische
städtische
92,602 corpus weight
- Stürmer
Stürmer
92,601 corpus weight
- sur
sur
92,600 corpus weight
- Takt
Takt
92,599 corpus weight
- tauchen
tauchen
92,598 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „sur“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | sur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [zuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sur“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sur is neighbouring look-alikes ("SV", "SZ", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [zuːɐ̯]. Frequency #7,401 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs suren".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sur in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SV", "SZ", "SW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is sur, spelled S-U-R.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs suren
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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