amu

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/[…]/ verb

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The verdict

“amu” is uncommon German (frequency #99,455 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,455
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs ami

Corpus desk

Index DE-amu · amu · German

amu · rank #99,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,455
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH ampera

Nearest frequency peer: ampera (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „amu“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „amu“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for amu
PropertyValue
Headwordamu
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters3
Frequency rank#99,455
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „amu“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).amufällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „ampera“ (#99,454), „Anbaugebiete“ (#99,456), „Amazonasgebiet“ (#99,453). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „amu“ bei #99,455. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

amu is uncommon German at frequency #99,455 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs ami".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for amu, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is amu, spelled A-M-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs ami

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "amu"?
"amu" is spelled A-M-U. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "amu" mean?
As a verb, "amu" means: Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs ami
How do you pronounce "amu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "amu" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "amu", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

aco#99,432ATF#99,486Yue#99,364SRT#99,120

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list