zulassen
[ˈt͡suːˌlasn̩]
The verdict
“zulassen” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,903. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,903
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas tolerieren, dulden
Corpus desk
Index DE-zulassen · zulassen · German
zulassen · rank #5,903 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,903
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zahlung
Nearest frequency peer: Zahlung (-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 „zulassen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- wundert
wundert
94,101 corpus weight
- Wurst
Wurst
94,100 corpus weight
- Zahlung
Zahlung
94,099 corpus weight
- zulassen
zulassen
94,098 corpus weight
- zustimmen
zustimmen
94,097 corpus weight
- ankommen
ankommen
94,096 corpus weight
What this shows „zulassen“ 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 | zulassen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt͡suːˌlasn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „zulassen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around zulassen (IPA [ˈt͡suːˌlasn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,903 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for zulassen, with forms such as "uzlassen", "zluassen", and "zualssen". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "zulässt", "zulässig", "zulasten", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 zulassen, spelled Z-U-L-A-S-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas tolerieren, dulden
- 2eine Erlaubnis erteilen, Zugang zu etwas gewähren
- 3etwas ermöglichen, die Möglichkeit zu etwas geben (auch passiv)
- 4geschlossen halten
- 5den Begattungsakt ermöglichen oder forcieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zulassen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wie konntet ihr nur das gefährliche Spiel zulassen.
Nur Erwachsene waren für das Studium zugelassen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uzlassen
- zluassen
- zualssen
- zulasen
- zulasesn
- zulassenn
- zulassne
- zulaßen
- zullassen
- zulsasen
- zzulassen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zulassen - 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 "zulassen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).