Zürichsee
[ˈt͡syːʁɪçˌzeː]
The verdict
“Zürichsee” is uncommon German (frequency #59,377 among 37,643 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,377
- frequency rank, German
- 37,643
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - fünftgrößter See der Schweiz südöstlich von Zürich
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zürichsee |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡syːʁɪçˌzeː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Zürichsee” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Zürichsee is uncommon German at frequency #59,377 among 37,643 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈt͡syːʁɪçˌzeː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fünftgrößter See der Schweiz südöstlich von Zürich".
Zürichsee has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Zürichsee, spelled Z-Ü-R-I-C-H-S-E-E.
Definition
- 1fünftgrößter See der Schweiz südöstlich von Zürich
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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Using “Zürichsee”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Z-Ü-R-I-C-H-S-E-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈt͡syːʁɪçˌzeː] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.