zurücklehnen
[t͡suˈʁʏkˌleːnən]
The verdict
“zurücklehnen” has 19 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,399. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,399
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas/sich nach hinten lehnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-zurucklehnen · zurücklehnen · German
zurücklehnen · rank #31,399 · 19 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,399
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH zuerkannt
Nearest frequency peer: zuerkannt (-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 „zurücklehnen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Zoologie
Zoologie
68,605 corpus weight
- Zr
Zr
68,604 corpus weight
- zuerkannt
zuerkannt
68,603 corpus weight
- zurücklehnen
zurücklehnen
68,602 corpus weight
- Zusammenleb…
Zusammenlebens
68,601 corpus weight
- Zutat
Zutat
68,600 corpus weight
What this shows „zurücklehnen“ 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 | zurücklehnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t͡suˈʁʏkˌleːnən] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #31,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „zurücklehnen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around zurücklehnen (IPA [t͡suˈʁʏkˌleːnən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,399 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for zurücklehnen, with forms such as "uzrücklehnen", "zruücklehnen", and "zurcüklehnen". 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, "zurücknehmen", "zurückgehen", "zurücklegen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is zurücklehnen, spelled Z-U-R-Ü-C-K-L-E-H-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas/sich nach hinten lehnen
- 2nach einer großen, gelungenen Arbeit Entspannung, Erholung suchen, um neue Kraft zu schöpfen; es sich bequem machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zurücklehnen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Schwahl griff nach einer Zigarette und lehnte sich im Sessel zurück.“
„Weiter sagt er nichts, vorerst, er klopft mit den Fingern ein getragenes Motiv auf den Tisch und hält den Kopf weit zurückgelehnt, in verborgene Gedanken vertieft.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uzrücklehnen
- zruücklehnen
- zurcüklehnen
- zurrücklehnen
- zurüccklehnen
- zurückelhnen
- zurückklehnen
- zurücklehenn
- zurücklehhnen
- zurücklehnenn
- zurücklehnne
- zurücklehnnen
- zurücklenhen
- zurücklhenen
- zurückllehnen
- zurüclkehnen
- zurükclehnen
- zuürcklehnen
- zzurücklehnen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zurücklehnen - 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 "zurücklehnen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).