due
[djuː]
The verdict
“due” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,191) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,191
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fällig
Corpus desk
Index DE-due · due · German
due · rank #19,191 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,191
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dringende
Nearest frequency peer: dringende (-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 „due“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Dialekte
Dialekte
80,814 corpus weight
- Direktion
Direktion
80,813 corpus weight
- div
div
80,812 corpus weight
- dringende
dringende
80,811 corpus weight
- due
due
80,810 corpus weight
- economic
economic
80,808 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „due“ 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 | due |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [djuː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „due“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for due is neighbouring look-alikes ("DW", "dz", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [djuː]. Frequency #19,191 among 2,764 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for due in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DW", "dz", "DV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is due, spelled D-U-E.
Definition
- 1fällig
- 2gebührend, gehörig, schuldig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how due appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The account is due on the 21st.
He treated her with due respect.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).