Tusche
[ˈtʊʃə]
The verdict
“Tusche” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #47,058. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,058
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dunkle, mit Bindemitteln versetzte Tinte mit unlöslichem Farbmittel
Corpus desk
Index DE-tusche · Tusche · German
Tusche · rank #47,058 · 9 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,058
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH tretet
Nearest frequency peer: tretet (-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 „Tusche“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Trainingsei…
Trainingseinheit
52,946 corpus weight
- transportie…
transportierte
52,945 corpus weight
- tretet
tretet
52,944 corpus weight
- Tusche
Tusche
52,943 corpus weight
- Türrahmen
Türrahmen
52,942 corpus weight
- umgeschlagen
umgeschlagen
52,941 corpus weight
What this shows „Tusche“ 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 | Tusche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtʊʃə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Tusche“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Tusche (IPA [ˈtʊʃə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,058 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 Tusche, with forms such as "tsuche", "ttusche", and "tucshe". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Tütchen", "Tuch", "Tisch", 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 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 Tusche, spelled T-U-S-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1dunkle, mit Bindemitteln versetzte Tinte mit unlöslichem Farbmittel
- 2Wasserfarbe
- 3Wimperntusche
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tusche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kalligrafen arbeiten oft mit Tusche.
„Wohlan, rühren wir jetzt die Tusche auf dem Tuschstein und lassen wir den Pinsel übers Papier tanzen und berichten wir, wie er die Schuld, die er im Verlauf seines lockeren, einzig auf vergnügliches Wind- und Mondspiel gerichteten Lebenswandels anhäufte, Sünde um Sünde abbüßen und so ernten mußte, was er gesät hatte.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tsuche
- ttusche
- tucshe
- tuscche
- tusceh
- tuschhe
- tushce
- tussche
- utsche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tusche - 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 "Tusche", 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).