zuständig
[ˈt͡suːˌʃtɛndɪç]
The verdict
“zuständig” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #3,013. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,013
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verantwortlich für etwas
Corpus desk
Index DE-zustandig · zuständig · German
zuständig · rank #3,013 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,013
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH ZDF
Nearest frequency peer: ZDF (-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 „zuständig“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- WE
WE
96,991 corpus weight
- wodurch
wodurch
96,990 corpus weight
- ZDF
ZDF
96,989 corpus weight
- zuständig
zuständig
96,988 corpus weight
- Überraschung
Überraschung
96,987 corpus weight
- Aktionen
Aktionen
96,986 corpus weight
What this shows „zuständig“ 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 | zuständig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈt͡suːˌʃtɛndɪç] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „zuständig“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around zuständig (IPA [ˈt͡suːˌʃtɛndɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,013 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Dominant gloss: "verantwortlich für etwas".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for zuständig, with forms such as "uzständig", "zsutändig", and "zusständig". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Zustands", "zuständige", "zuständigen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is zuständig, spelled Z-U-S-T-Ä-N-D-I-G.
Definition
- 1verantwortlich für etwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zuständig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Landrat war in diesem Fall die zuständige Behörde für das Einschreiten.
„Die zuständige Fakultät der Universität Düsseldorf hat das Verfahren zur Aberkennung des Doktortitels einer früheren Doktorandin eingeleitet.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uzständig
- zsutändig
- zusständig
- zustnädig
- zusttändig
- zustädnig
- zuständdig
- zuständgi
- zuständigg
- zustänidg
- zustänndig
- zusätndig
- zutsändig
- zzuständig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zuständig - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "zuständig", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).