DUH
The verdict
“DUH” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,693) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,693
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.
Corpus desk
Index DE-duh · DUH · German
DUH · rank #38,693 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,693
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH drug
Nearest frequency peer: drug (-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 „DUH“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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61,311 corpus weight
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Druckluft
61,310 corpus weight
- drug
drug
61,309 corpus weight
- DUH
DUH
61,308 corpus weight
- Durchblicken
Durchblicken
61,307 corpus weight
- durchbricht
durchbricht
61,306 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „DUH“ 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 | DUH |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „DUH“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DUH is neighbouring look-alikes ("DW", "dz", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #38,693 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for DUH, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DW", "dz", "DV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 DUH, spelled D-U-H.
Definition
- 1Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DUH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sollten die Immobilienanbieter die Erklärung nicht unterzeichnen, würde man auch vor Gericht ziehen, heißt es bei der DUH.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "DUH", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).