zurückführt
[t͡suˈʁʏkˌfyːɐ̯t]
The verdict
“zurückführt” is uncommon German (frequency #69,926 among 37,643 “Z” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,926
- frequency rank, German
- 37,643
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs zurückführen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zurückführt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t͡suˈʁʏkˌfyːɐ̯t] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zurückführt” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
zurückführt is uncommon German at frequency #69,926 among 37,643 “Z” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [t͡suˈʁʏkˌfyːɐ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for zurückführt, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is zurückführt, spelled Z-U-R-Ü-C-K-F-Ü-H-R-T.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs zurückführen
- 22. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs zurückführen
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 “zurückführt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Z-U-R-Ü-C-K-F-Ü-H-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.