Ursprung
[ˈuːɐ̯ˌʃpʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“Ursprung” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,125. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,125
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zeitpunkt, Ort oder Material, aus dem etwas hervorgegangen ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-ursprung · Ursprung · German
Ursprung · rank #5,125 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,125
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH unterschreiben
Nearest frequency peer: unterschreiben (-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 „Ursprung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Unglück
Unglück
94,879 corpus weight
- unnötig
unnötig
94,878 corpus weight
- unterschrei…
unterschreiben
94,877 corpus weight
- Ursprung
Ursprung
94,876 corpus weight
- verlaufen
verlaufen
94,875 corpus weight
- verpassen
verpassen
94,874 corpus weight
What this shows „Ursprung“ 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 | Ursprung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈuːɐ̯ˌʃpʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Ursprung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Ursprung (IPA [ˈuːɐ̯ˌʃpʁʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,125 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ursprung, with forms such as "rusprung", "urpsrung", and "urrsprung". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Ursprungs", "Ursprünge", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Ursprung, spelled U-R-S-P-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Zeitpunkt, Ort oder Material, aus dem etwas hervorgegangen ist
- 2Schnittpunkt der Koordinatenachsen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ursprung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Ursprung der Sprachen liegt im Dunkeln.
„Sie ist eine geborene Grönländerin, was bedeutet, dass sich einige friesische und dänische Einflüsse mit den asiatischen Ursprüngen mischen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rusprung
- urpsrung
- urrsprung
- urspprung
- ursprnug
- ursprrung
- ursprugn
- ursprungg
- ursprunng
- urspurng
- ursrpung
- urssprung
- usrprung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ursprung - 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 "Ursprung", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).