UAE
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The verdict
“UAE” is an uncommon German word, ranked #96,395 in German word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #96,395
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - United Arab Emirates (Vereinigte Arabische Emirate)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | UAE |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #96,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “UAE” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for UAE is 3 letters long, classified as an abbreviation, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #96,395 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "United Arab Emirates (Vereinigte Arabische Emirate)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for UAE in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is UAE, spelled U-A-E.
Definition
- 1United Arab Emirates (Vereinigte Arabische Emirate)
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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Using “UAE”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is U-A-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.