Zulauf
[ˈt͡suːlaʊ̯f]
The verdict
“Zulauf” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,787. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,787
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Teilnahme von Personen aufgrund des (gemeinsamen) Interesses
Corpus desk
Index DE-zulauf · Zulauf · German
Zulauf · rank #19,787 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,787
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH zugehörige
Nearest frequency peer: zugehörige (-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 „Zulauf“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Zeller
Zeller
80,217 corpus weight
- zucken
zucken
80,216 corpus weight
- zugehörige
zugehörige
80,215 corpus weight
- Zulauf
Zulauf
80,214 corpus weight
- zusammenkom…
zusammenkommen
80,213 corpus weight
- zusammenset…
zusammensetzen
80,212 corpus weight
What this shows „Zulauf“ 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 | Zulauf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡suːlaʊ̯f] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Zulauf“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Zulauf (IPA [ˈt͡suːlaʊ̯f]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,787 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Zulauf, with forms such as "uzlauf", "zluauf", and "zualuf". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Zulu", "zuhauf", "Zulage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Zulauf, spelled Z-U-L-A-U-F.
Definition
- 1Teilnahme von Personen aufgrund des (gemeinsamen) Interesses
- 2hinzugefügte oder -geflossene Flüssigkeit
- 3Stelle der Zuführung oder des Zuflusses von Flüssigkeit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zulauf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Zulauf vom Gymnasium beträgt etwa 20 Prozent - aus ganz unterschiedlichen Motiven.“
„Dort veranstaltete [Kleopha Lechner] Konzerte, welche wohl starken Zulauf hatten, da ergebnislose Beschwerden von Konkurrierenden [sic!] Kaffeehausbesitzern über ihre Lizenz belegt sind.“
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uzlauf
- zluauf
- zualuf
- zulafu
- zulauff
- zullauf
- zuluaf
- zzulauf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Zulauf - 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 "Zulauf", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).