Terminus
[ˈtɛʁminʊs]
The verdict
“Terminus” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,362. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,362
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wort der Fachsprache eines (wissenschaftlichen) Sachgebietes
Corpus desk
Index DE-terminus · Terminus · German
Terminus · rank #29,362 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,362
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Terminologie
Nearest frequency peer: Terminologie (-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 „Terminus“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Tabus
Tabus
70,642 corpus weight
- teilnahm
teilnahm
70,641 corpus weight
- Terminologie
Terminologie
70,640 corpus weight
- Terminus
Terminus
70,639 corpus weight
- Thyssen
Thyssen
70,638 corpus weight
- Tierchen
Tierchen
70,637 corpus weight
What this shows „Terminus“ 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 | Terminus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtɛʁminʊs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Terminus“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Terminus (IPA [ˈtɛʁminʊs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,362 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Wort der Fachsprache eines (wissenschaftlichen) Sachgebietes".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Terminus, with forms such as "etrminus", "temrinus", and "terimnus". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "termine", "terminal", "Terminen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Terminus, spelled T-E-R-M-I-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Wort der Fachsprache eines (wissenschaftlichen) Sachgebietes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Terminus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Termini sind im Rahmen einer Theorie begrifflich definierte Fachwörter.“
„Seit Mitte des vorigen Jahrhunderts nehmen dabei umfangreiche Mehrfachkomposita überhand, mit denen versucht wird, die Nomination als Kurzbeschreibung des Denotats einzusetzen und Selbstdeutigkeit der Termini zu erreichen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrminus
- temrinus
- terimnus
- terminnus
- terminsu
- terminuss
- termiuns
- termminus
- termnius
- terrminus
- treminus
- tterminus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Terminus - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).