zurückgeben

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for zurückgeben is 11 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡suˈʁʏkˌɡeːbn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,008 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "einen Gegenstand wieder in den Besitz der Person geben, die den Gegenstand zuvor hatte, beziehungsweise wieder in den Besitz des Eigentümers geben".

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for zurückgeben, with forms such as "uzrückgeben", "zruückgeben", and "zurcükgeben". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "zurückgehen", "zurücklegen", "zurückgegeben", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is zurückgeben, spelled Z-U-R-Ü-C-K-G-E-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.