ursus

noun

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The verdict

“ursus” is uncommon German (frequency #74,114 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,114
frequency rank, German
2,159
“U” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bär

Corpus desk

Index DE-ursus · ursus · German

ursus · rank #74,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #74,114
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,159
  • PHOTO-FINISH Urteilsspruch

Nearest frequency peer: Urteilsspruch (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „ursus“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ursus“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ursus
PropertyValue
Headwordursus
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#74,114
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „ursus“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.ursusfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Urteilsspruch“ (#74,115), „Unzulänglichkeit“ (#74,112), „vai“ (#74,116). Unter 2,159 „U“-Lemmata liegt „ursus“ bei #74,114. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ursus is uncommon German at frequency #74,114 among 2,159 “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

  1. 1
    Bär

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how ursus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. ursaque conspectos in montibus horruit ursos (…) (Ovid: Metamorphosen II,494)

This word in other languages

bear(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ursus"?
"ursus" is spelled U-R-S-U-S.
What does "ursus" mean?
As a noun, "ursus" means: Bär
What language does "ursus" come from?
"ursus" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ursus", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Varus#74,117vasco#74,118Weeze#74,171spuck#74,030

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list