Turmuhr
[ˈtʊʁmˌʔuːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Turmuhr” is uncommon German (frequency #77,441 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,441
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - meist große, aus größerer Entfernung sichtbare Uhr, die in oder an einem Turm montiert ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-turmuhr · Turmuhr · German
Turmuhr · rank #77,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,441
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH tupperware
Nearest frequency peer: tupperware (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Turmuhr“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- trostlose
trostlose
22,565 corpus weight
- Trostpreis
Trostpreis
22,564 corpus weight
- tupperware
tupperware
22,561 corpus weight
- Turmuhr
Turmuhr
22,560 corpus weight
- Türschloss
Türschloss
22,558 corpus weight
- umsetzte
umsetzte
22,554 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Turmuhr“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Turmuhr |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtʊʁmˌʔuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Turmuhr“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Turmuhr is uncommon German at frequency #77,441 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtʊʁmˌʔuːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "meist große, aus größerer Entfernung sichtbare Uhr, die in oder an einem Turm montiert ist".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Turmuhr in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Turmuhr, spelled T-U-R-M-U-H-R.
Definition
- 1meist große, aus größerer Entfernung sichtbare Uhr, die in oder an einem Turm montiert ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Turmuhr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Turmuhr zeigt 11 Uhr.
„Die Turmuhr in Brocklesby Park, die um 1722 fertiggestellt wurde, zeigt noch heute die Zeit an. Sie läuft seit über 270 Jahren – abgesehen von einer kurzen Unterbrechung im Jahre 1884, als sie überholt wurde.“
This word in other languages
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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