cu
[ˈsiːjuː]
The verdict
“cu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,994) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,994
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - see you; bis dann, man sieht sich, lg
Corpus desk
Index DE-cu · cu · German
cu · rank #29,994 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,994
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH crown
Nearest frequency peer: crown (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cu”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Colt
Colt
70,011 corpus weight
- compilation
compilation
70,010 corpus weight
- crown
crown
70,008 corpus weight
- cu
cu
70,007 corpus weight
- dargeboten
dargeboten
70,006 corpus weight
- deckte
deckte
70,004 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cu” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | cu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈsiːjuː] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #29,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “cu” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cu is neighbouring look-alikes ("cz", "CUP", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˈsiːjuː]. Frequency #29,994 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "see you; bis dann, man sieht sich, lg".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cu, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cz", "CUP", "cum", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is cu, spelled C-U.
Definition
- 1see you; bis dann, man sieht sich, lg
Synonyms
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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- "cu" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "cz". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #29,994 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.