Urlauber
[ˈuːɐ̯ˌlaʊ̯bɐ]
The verdict
“Urlauber” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,815. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,815
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemand, der Urlaub macht; der sich im Urlaub befindet
Corpus desk
Index DE-urlauber · Urlauber · German
Urlauber · rank #12,815 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,815
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH unzureichend
Nearest frequency peer: unzureichend (-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 „Urlauber“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- unbemerkt
unbemerkt
87,189 corpus weight
- unwichtig
unwichtig
87,188 corpus weight
- unzureichend
unzureichend
87,187 corpus weight
- Urlauber
Urlauber
87,186 corpus weight
- variablen
variablen
87,185 corpus weight
- Vatikan
Vatikan
87,184 corpus weight
What this shows „Urlauber“ 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 | Urlauber |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈuːɐ̯ˌlaʊ̯bɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Urlauber“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Urlauber (IPA [ˈuːɐ̯ˌlaʊ̯bɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,815 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "jemand, der Urlaub macht; der sich im Urlaub befindet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Urlauber, with forms such as "rulauber", "ulrauber", and "uraluber". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Urlaubs", "Urlaub", "Urlaube", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Urlauber, spelled U-R-L-A-U-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1jemand, der Urlaub macht; der sich im Urlaub befindet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Urlauber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Urlauber warteten auf den Reiseleiter.
„Der letzte Schwung Urlauber der Saison war abgereist.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rulauber
- ulrauber
- uraluber
- urlabuer
- urlaubber
- urlauberr
- urlaubre
- urlauebr
- urllauber
- urluaber
- urrlauber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Urlauber - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Urlauber", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).