CPU
[t͡seːpeːˈʔuː]
The verdict
“CPU” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,404) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,404
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptprozessor in einem Computer
Corpus desk
Index DE-cpu · CPU · German
CPU · rank #11,404 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,404
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Depp
Nearest frequency peer: Depp (+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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „CPU“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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Burgenland
88,600 corpus weight
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care
88,599 corpus weight
- CPU
CPU
88,597 corpus weight
- Depp
Depp
88,596 corpus weight
- detaillierte
detaillierte
88,595 corpus weight
- Dienstes
Dienstes
88,594 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „CPU“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | CPU |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡seːpeːˈʔuː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „CPU“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CPU is neighbouring look-alikes ("CT", "Cs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [t͡seːpeːˈʔuː]. Frequency #11,404 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Hauptprozessor in einem Computer".
Zero misspellings are on record for CPU in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CT", "Cs", "Cr", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is CPU, spelled C-P-U.
Definition
- 1Hauptprozessor in einem Computer
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CPU appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„"Grundsätzlich ist die CPU bereits tot", erklärt Roy Taylor, hochrangiger Nvidia-Manager, in einer internen E-Mail an die Mitarbeiter des Unternehmens.“
This word in other languages
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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