surf
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The verdict
“surf” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,052. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,052
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Surfen, der Surfsport
Corpus desk
Index DE-surf · surf · German
surf · rank #36,052 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,052
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH supi
Nearest frequency peer: supi (-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 „surf“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sumatra
Sumatra
63,951 corpus weight
- supi
supi
63,950 corpus weight
- surf
surf
63,949 corpus weight
- symptomatis…
symptomatisch
63,948 corpus weight
- Tabellenfüh…
Tabellenführung
63,947 corpus weight
- tangiert
tangiert
63,946 corpus weight
What this shows „surf“ 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 | surf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „surf“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around surf (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,052 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "das Surfen, der Surfsport".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for surf, with forms such as "sruf", "ssurf", and "sufr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SWR", "SUV", "sus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is surf, spelled S-U-R-F.
Definition
- 1das Surfen, der Surfsport
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sruf
- ssurf
- sufr
- surff
- surrf
- usrf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surf - 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 "surf", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).