wurscht
[vʊʁʃt]
The verdict
“wurscht” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,575. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,575
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ohne Belang, ohne Bedeutung, ohne Interesse aus der Sicht der sich äußernden Person
Corpus desk
Index DE-wurscht · wurscht · German
wurscht · rank #22,575 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,575
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wirkliches
Nearest frequency peer: wirkliches (-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 „wurscht“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Windkraftan…
Windkraftanlagen
77,429 corpus weight
- wirf
wirf
77,428 corpus weight
- wirkliches
wirkliches
77,427 corpus weight
- wurscht
wurscht
77,426 corpus weight
- Wölfen
Wölfen
77,425 corpus weight
- würfeln
würfeln
77,424 corpus weight
What this shows „wurscht“ 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 | wurscht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [vʊʁʃt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „wurscht“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around wurscht (IPA [vʊʁʃt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,575 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ohne Belang, ohne Bedeutung, ohne Interesse aus der Sicht der sich äußernden Person".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for wurscht, with forms such as "uwrscht", "wruscht", and "wurcsht". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Wurst", "wusch", "Wucht", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is wurscht, spelled W-U-R-S-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1ohne Belang, ohne Bedeutung, ohne Interesse aus der Sicht der sich äußernden Person
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wurscht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heute ist mir alles wurscht.
Ob ich zu der Fete gehe oder nicht, kann dir doch wurscht sein.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uwrscht
- wruscht
- wurcsht
- wurrscht
- wursccht
- wurschht
- wurschtt
- wurscth
- wurshct
- wursscht
- wusrcht
- wwurscht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wurscht - 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 "wurscht", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).