Turnus
[ˈtʊʁnʊs]
The verdict
“Turnus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,300. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,300
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - regelmäßiger Rhythmus, regelmäßiger Wechsel, festgelegte Wiederkehr
Corpus desk
Index DE-turnus · Turnus · German
Turnus · rank #44,300 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,300
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Turniersieg
Nearest frequency peer: Turniersieg (-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 „Turnus“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- tura
tura
55,704 corpus weight
- turbulente
turbulente
55,703 corpus weight
- Turniersieg
Turniersieg
55,702 corpus weight
- Turnus
Turnus
55,701 corpus weight
- turtle
turtle
55,700 corpus weight
- twitterte
twitterte
55,699 corpus weight
What this shows „Turnus“ 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 | Turnus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtʊʁnʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Turnus“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Turnus (IPA [ˈtʊʁnʊs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,300 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Turnus, with forms such as "trunus", "tturnus", and "tunrus". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "turn", "Tuns", "Tunis", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Turnus, spelled T-U-R-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1regelmäßiger Rhythmus, regelmäßiger Wechsel, festgelegte Wiederkehr
- 2einzelner Durchgang zu [1]
- 3dreijährige praktische Ausbildungszeit für Mediziner, nach deren Promotion
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Turnus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die EU-Ratspräsidentschaft folgt einem sechsmonatigen Turnus.
Der Leiter des dritten Turnus hatte es besonders schwer, da sich schlechtes Wetter mit einer unwilligen Teilnehmerschaft paarte.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- trunus
- tturnus
- tunrus
- turnnus
- turnsu
- turnuss
- turrnus
- turuns
- utrnus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Turnus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Turnus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).