zuschauen
[ˈt͡suːˌʃaʊ̯ən]
The verdict
“zuschauen” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,600. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,600
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem bei etwas zusehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-zuschauen · zuschauen · German
zuschauen · rank #10,600 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,600
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH zurückzukehren
Nearest frequency peer: zurückzukehren (-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 „zuschauen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- zimmern
zimmern
89,404 corpus weight
- Zuhörer
Zuhörer
89,403 corpus weight
- zurückzukeh…
zurückzukehren
89,402 corpus weight
- zuschauen
zuschauen
89,401 corpus weight
- Zuwanderung
Zuwanderung
89,400 corpus weight
- überwunden
überwunden
89,399 corpus weight
What this shows „zuschauen“ 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 | zuschauen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt͡suːˌʃaʊ̯ən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „zuschauen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around zuschauen (IPA [ˈt͡suːˌʃaʊ̯ən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,600 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Dominant gloss: "jemandem bei etwas zusehen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for zuschauen, with forms such as "uzschauen", "zsuchauen", and "zucshauen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Zuschauer", "Zuschauern", "zuzuschauen", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is zuschauen, spelled Z-U-S-C-H-A-U-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem bei etwas zusehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zuschauen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Situation ist zwar noch nicht akut alarmierend, aber die Union wird nicht auf Dauer zuschauen können.
„Und jetzt lasst uns gehen und dem kleinen schwarzen Buben der Familie zuschauen, dem verrückten Kopf“, sagte Paolo Berlusconi kurz vor dem Spiel des AC gegen Udinese.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uzschauen
- zsuchauen
- zucshauen
- zuscahuen
- zuscchauen
- zuschaeun
- zuschauenn
- zuschaune
- zuschhauen
- zuschuaen
- zushcauen
- zusschauen
- zzuschauen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zuschauen - 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 "zuschauen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).