Virus
[ˈviːʁʊs]
The verdict
“Virus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,083. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,083
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleinster Krankheitserreger, der sich nur in Zellen vermehren kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-virus · Virus · German
Virus · rank #4,083 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,083
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Vielfalt
Nearest frequency peer: Vielfalt (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Virus“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- vermittelt
vermittelt
95,921 corpus weight
- versetzt
versetzt
95,920 corpus weight
- Vielfalt
Vielfalt
95,919 corpus weight
- Virus
Virus
95,918 corpus weight
- Voraussetzu…
Voraussetzung
95,917 corpus weight
- wichtiges
wichtiges
95,916 corpus weight
What this shows „Virus“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Virus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈviːʁʊs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Virus“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Virus (IPA [ˈviːʁʊs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,083 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Virus, with forms such as "ivrus", "virrus", and "virsu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "vis", "vors", "vous", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Virus, spelled V-I-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1kleinster Krankheitserreger, der sich nur in Zellen vermehren kann
- 2schädlicher, sich selbst durch Hilfe von Programmen verbreitender, selbst nicht lauffähiger (ausführbarer) Kode
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Virus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er hat sich ein(en) Virus eingefangen.
„Nur besonders aufdringliche Zeitgenossen zeigen, wie furchtlos sie selbst Bazillen und Viren gegenüberstehen und schütteln trotzdem – oder erst recht.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivrus
- virrus
- virsu
- viruss
- viurs
- vrius
- vvirus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Virus - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Virus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).