trübe
[ˈtʁyːbə]
The verdict
“trübe” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,407. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,407
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs trüb
Corpus desk
Index DE-trube · trübe · German
trübe · rank #34,407 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,407
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH trips
Nearest frequency peer: trips (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “trübe”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Tisches
Tisches
65,598 corpus weight
- Totalschaden
Totalschaden
65,597 corpus weight
- trips
trips
65,595 corpus weight
- trübe
trübe
65,594 corpus weight
- tuning
tuning
65,593 corpus weight
- Täufer
Täufer
65,592 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “trübe” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | trübe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈtʁyːbə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “trübe” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around trübe (IPA [ˈtʁyːbə]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,407 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for trübe, with forms such as "rtübe", "trbüe", and "trrübe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tue", "trug", "Tüte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 trübe, spelled T-R-Ü-B-E.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs trüb
- 2Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs trüb
- 3Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs trüb
- 4Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs trüb
- 5Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs trüb
- 6Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs trüb
- 7Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs trüb
- 8Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs trüb
- 9Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs trüb
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtübe
- trbüe
- trrübe
- trübbe
- trüeb
- ttrübe
- türbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trübe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "trübe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "trübe". Here's where to go from here.
- "trübe" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "tue". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #34,407 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "T" letter cohort. T–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.