Urzeit
[ˈuːɐ̯ˌt͡saɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Urzeit” is uncommon German (frequency #51,783 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,783
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - frühe Phase der Erdentwicklung
Corpus desk
Index DE-urzeit · Urzeit · German
Urzeit · rank #51,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,783
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Urbar
Nearest frequency peer: Urbar (-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 „Urzeit“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- unverwechse…
unverwechselbar
48,221 corpus weight
- unzureichen…
unzureichender
48,220 corpus weight
- Urbar
Urbar
48,219 corpus weight
- Urzeit
Urzeit
48,218 corpus weight
- Uslar
Uslar
48,217 corpus weight
- vakant
vakant
48,216 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Urzeit“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Urzeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈuːɐ̯ˌt͡saɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Urzeit“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Urzeit is uncommon German at frequency #51,783 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈuːɐ̯ˌt͡saɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Urzeit, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Urzeit, spelled U-R-Z-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1frühe Phase der Erdentwicklung
- 2frühe (vorgeschichtliche) Phase der Menschheit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Urzeit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In der Urzeit sah die Weltkarte noch ganz anders aus.“
„Und dieses Verfahren steht nun auch allen Forschen zur Verfügung, die sich auf die Suche nach solchen Lebenszeichen aus der Urzeit machen wollen.“
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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