atu
[aˈtuː]
The verdict
“atu” is uncommon German (frequency #68,006 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,006
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atmosphärenunterdruck
Corpus desk
Index DE-atu · atu · German
atu · rank #68,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,006
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Attentäters
Nearest frequency peer: Attentäters (-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 „atu“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Astrophysik…
Astrophysiker
31,998 corpus weight
- atlantische
atlantische
31,997 corpus weight
- Attentäters
Attentäters
31,996 corpus weight
- atu
atu
31,995 corpus weight
- Aufenthalts…
Aufenthaltsdauer
31,994 corpus weight
- aufgedrängt
aufgedrängt
31,992 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „atu“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [aˈtuː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #68,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „atu“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
atu is uncommon German at frequency #68,006 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed [aˈtuː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Atmosphärenunterdruck".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for atu, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is atu, spelled A-T-U.
Definition
- 1Atmosphärenunterdruck
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how atu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hier wird Unterdruck in atu angegeben.
Antonyms
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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