Turnschuh
[ˈtʊʁnˌʃuː]
The verdict
“Turnschuh” is uncommon German (frequency #83,404 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,404
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fußbekleidung, welche zum Sport in Hallen geeignet ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-turnschuh · Turnschuh · German
Turnschuh · rank #83,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,404
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH tummelten
Nearest frequency peer: tummelten (-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 „Turnschuh“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Trottoir
Trottoir
16,603 corpus weight
- Troyes
Troyes
16,602 corpus weight
- tummelt
tummelt
16,599 corpus weight
- tummelten
tummelten
16,598 corpus weight
- Turnschuh
Turnschuh
16,597 corpus weight
- Umformung
Umformung
16,592 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Turnschuh“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Turnschuh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtʊʁnˌʃuː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Turnschuh“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Turnschuh is uncommon German at frequency #83,404 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtʊʁnˌʃuː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Turnschuh doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Turnschuh, spelled T-U-R-N-S-C-H-U-H.
Definition
- 1Fußbekleidung, welche zum Sport in Hallen geeignet ist
- 2Fußbekleidung, welche zum Ausführen von Turnübungen geeignet ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Turnschuh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Joschka Fischer wurde in Turnschuhen vereidigt.
„Anstatt der Turnschuhe trug ich nur noch die hässlichen, aber durchaus luftig-angenehmen Trekkingsandalen an den Füßen.“
Synonyms
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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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