Zürcher
[ˈt͡sʏʁçɐ]
The verdict
“Zürcher” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,977. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,977
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (männlicher^☆) Einwohner der Stadt oder des Kantons Zürich (oder unbestimmten Geschlechts)
Corpus desk
Index DE-zurcher · Zürcher · German
Zürcher · rank #8,977 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,977
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH zunehmende
Nearest frequency peer: zunehmende (-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 „Zürcher“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Wolff
Wolff
91,027 corpus weight
- Zivilisation
Zivilisation
91,026 corpus weight
- zunehmende
zunehmende
91,025 corpus weight
- Zürcher
Zürcher
91,024 corpus weight
- Ärztin
Ärztin
91,023 corpus weight
- Abgaben
Abgaben
91,022 corpus weight
What this shows „Zürcher“ 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 | Zürcher |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡sʏʁçɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Zürcher“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Zürcher (IPA [ˈt͡sʏʁçɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,977 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Zürcher, with forms such as "zrücher", "zzürcher", and "zücrher". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Zuseher", "Züricher", "Zucker", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Zürcher, spelled Z-Ü-R-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1(männlicher^☆) Einwohner der Stadt oder des Kantons Zürich (oder unbestimmten Geschlechts)
- 2(männlicher^☆) Bürger der Stadt oder des Kantons Zürich (oder unbestimmten Geschlechts)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zürcher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er ist Zürcher, seine Frau ist Bernerin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- zrücher
- zzürcher
- zücrher
- zürccher
- zürcehr
- zürcherr
- zürchher
- zürchre
- zürhcer
- zürrcher
- üzrcher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Zürcher - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Zürcher", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).