üb
[yːp]
The verdict
“üb” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,022) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,022
- frequency rank, German
- 443
- “Ü” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben
Corpus desk
Index DE-ub · üb · German
üb · rank #35,022 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,022
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 443
- PHOTO-FINISH ödp
Nearest frequency peer: ödp (-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 „üb“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- zählenden
zählenden
64,982 corpus weight
- Ärztekammer
Ärztekammer
64,981 corpus weight
- ödp
ödp
64,980 corpus weight
- üb
üb
64,979 corpus weight
- Übeltäter
Übeltäter
64,978 corpus weight
- übertritt
übertritt
64,977 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „üb“ 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 | üb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [yːp] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #35,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „üb“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for üb is neighbouring look-alikes ("um", "us", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [yːp]. Frequency #35,022 among 443 “Ü” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for üb, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "um", "us", "up", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 üb, spelled Ü-B.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben
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.