Urzustand
[ˈuːɐ̯ˌt͡suːʃtant]
The verdict
“Urzustand” is uncommon German (frequency #97,883 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,883
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ursprünglicher Zustand
Corpus desk
Index DE-urzustand · Urzustand · German
Urzustand · rank #97,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,883
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Urteilsfindung
Nearest frequency peer: Urteilsfindung (-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 „Urzustand“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
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2,121 corpus weight
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2,120 corpus weight
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2,119 corpus weight
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2,118 corpus weight
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2,116 corpus weight
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2,115 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Urzustand“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Urzustand |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈuːɐ̯ˌt͡suːʃtant] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Urzustand“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Urzustand is uncommon German at frequency #97,883 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈuːɐ̯ˌt͡suːʃtant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Urzustand, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Urzustand, spelled U-R-Z-U-S-T-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1ursprünglicher Zustand
- 2ursprünglicher Zustand
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Urzustand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Unmittelbarkeit der Gottesbeziehung, die im Urzustand existierte, wird wiederhergestellt, der Graben zwischen Gott und den Menschen ist wieder geschlossen.“
„Da der Urzustand viel weniger die Ausgangsposition einer Vertragsverhandlung als eine Perspektive ist, die jeder Einzelne zur Überprüfung der Gerechtigkeit institutioneller Strukturen einnehmen soll, bildet Rawls’ postmetaphysisches Theoriedesign Kants Zwei-Welten-Dualismus nach. Die Spannung zwischen der am Urzustand geschulten moralischen und selbstint…
Antonyms
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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