Turm
[tʊʁm]
The verdict
“Turm” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,941
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hohes, schlankes, freistehendes Gebäude
Corpus desk
Index DE-turm · Turm · German
Turm · rank #4,941 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,941
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Treppe
Nearest frequency peer: Treppe (-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 „Turm“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- stream
stream
95,063 corpus weight
- Symptome
Symptome
95,062 corpus weight
- Treppe
Treppe
95,061 corpus weight
- Turm
Turm
95,060 corpus weight
- Unbekannten
Unbekannten
95,059 corpus weight
- untergebrac…
untergebracht
95,058 corpus weight
What this shows „Turm“ 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 | Turm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʊʁm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Turm“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Turm (IPA [tʊʁm]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,941 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Turm, with forms such as "trum", "tturm", and "tumr". 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, "tut", "TÜV", "TuS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Turm, spelled T-U-R-M.
Definition
- 1hohes, schlankes, freistehendes Gebäude
- 2schlank aufragender Gebäudeteil
- 3Spielfigur beim Schach
- 4etwas Hohes, Starkes, Festes
- 5drehbares Modul auf einem Panzer, an welches das Geschütz befestigt ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Turm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kennst Du den Turm am Meer?
„Eine alte Kirche ragt mächtig und hoch daraus hervor, Mauerreste einer Festung und eines massiven Turmes erinnern an vergangene Zeiten, da die Fürsten von Aragwi mit den Georgiern Krieg führten.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- trum
- tturm
- tumr
- turmm
- turrm
- utrm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Turm - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Turm", 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).