MCU
The verdict
“MCU” is uncommon German (frequency #93,274 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,274
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - micro controller unit; Mikrocontroller
Corpus desk
Index DE-mcu · MCU · German
MCU · rank #93,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,274
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH meditiert
Nearest frequency peer: meditiert (+2 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 „MCU“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- matern
matern
6,732 corpus weight
- MCU
MCU
6,727 corpus weight
- meditiert
meditiert
6,725 corpus weight
- Meinungsumf…
Meinungsumfrage
6,724 corpus weight
- meistgelese…
meistgelesenen
6,722 corpus weight
- melek
melek
6,721 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „MCU“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MCU |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #93,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „MCU“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
MCU is uncommon German at frequency #93,274 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "micro controller unit; Mikrocontroller".
MCU has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 MCU, spelled M-C-U.
Definition
- 1micro controller unit; Mikrocontroller
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MCU appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In diesem Unterabschnitt beschreiben wir kurz zwei 32-Bit-Controller, von denen der erste für die Erzeugung von digitalen Zeitsignalen für komplexe Steuerungsaufgaben, der zweite für den Einsatz als MCU in einem kleineren Rechnersystem besonders gut geeignet ist.“
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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