ursus
The verdict
“ursus” is uncommon German (frequency #74,114 among 30,279 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,114
- frequency rank, German
- 30,279
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bär
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ursus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ursus” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ursus is uncommon German at frequency #74,114 among 30,279 “U” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bär".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ursus, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 ursus, spelled U-R-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Bär
This word in other languages
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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Using “ursus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is U-R-S-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.