stu
[stʊ]
The verdict
“stu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,032) as an unknown. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,032
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Singular des Numerales sto
Corpus desk
Index DE-stu · stu · German
stu · rank #47,032 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,032
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH struck
Nearest frequency peer: struck (-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 neighbours of confusable “stu”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Streiter
Streiter
52,972 corpus weight
- strikes
strikes
52,971 corpus weight
- struck
struck
52,970 corpus weight
- stu
stu
52,969 corpus weight
- students
students
52,968 corpus weight
- stunts
stunts
52,967 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “stu” against nearest ranked German headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | stu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [stʊ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “stu” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for stu is neighbouring look-alikes ("SV", "SZ", …), not just typos; it is anunknown pronounced [stʊ]. Frequency #47,032 among 8,027 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
stu has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SV", "SZ", "SW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is stu, spelled S-T-U.
Definition
- 1Dativ Singular des Numerales sto
- 2Lokativ Singular des Numerales sto
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 "stu", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).