Zr
The verdict
“Zr” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,397) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,397
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zirkonium
Corpus desk
Index DE-zr · Zr · German
Zr · rank #31,397 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,397
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zoologie
Nearest frequency peer: Zoologie (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Zr“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Zimmers
Zimmers
68,607 corpus weight
- Zocker
Zocker
68,606 corpus weight
- Zoologie
Zoologie
68,605 corpus weight
- Zr
Zr
68,604 corpus weight
- zuerkannt
zuerkannt
68,603 corpus weight
- zurücklehnen
zurücklehnen
68,602 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Zr“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Zr |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #31,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Zr“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Zr is neighbouring look-alikes ("zu", "zum", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #31,397 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Gloss: "Zirkonium".
Zero misspellings are on record for Zr in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "zu", "zum", "zur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Zr, spelled Z-R.
Definition
- 1Zirkonium
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zr → Zr⁴⁺ + 4 e⁻
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.