Urtext
[ˈuːɐ̯ˌtɛkst]
The verdict
“Urtext” is uncommon German (frequency #99,247 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,247
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ursprünglicher Wortlaut eines Textes
Corpus desk
Index DE-urtext · Urtext · German
Urtext · rank #99,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,247
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Urinal
Nearest frequency peer: Urinal (-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 „Urtext“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- unvermeidba…
unvermeidbaren
758 corpus weight
- unwissender
unwissender
757 corpus weight
- urig
urig
756 corpus weight
- Urinal
Urinal
755 corpus weight
- Urtext
Urtext
754 corpus weight
- Usurpator
Usurpator
753 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Urtext“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Urtext |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈuːɐ̯ˌtɛkst] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Urtext“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Urtext is uncommon German at frequency #99,247 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈuːɐ̯ˌtɛkst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ursprünglicher Wortlaut eines Textes".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Urtext, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Urtext, spelled U-R-T-E-X-T.
Definition
- 1ursprünglicher Wortlaut eines Textes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Urtext appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nicht nur der Respekt fiel dahin, sondern auch die Kenntnis: man durfte ja nicht mehr Hebräisch lernen und die Bibel im Urtext lesen.“
„Teile aus den 114 Suren (Kapiteln) des Korans, die mit Ausnahme der 1. Sure, der Fātiḥa (Die Eröffnende) in absteigender Länge angeordnet worden sind, werden in den fünf täglichen Gebeten im arabischen Urtext rezitiert, und die Fātiḥa wird bei den Muslimen häufiger verwendet als das Vaterunser im Christentum; Fātiḥa wird geradezu zur Bezeichnung jedweder…
Synonyms
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).