übe
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,811
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
übe is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben Pronounced [ˈyːbə]. Often confused with um and us.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | übe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈyːbə] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for übe is 3 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈyːbə]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,811 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for übe in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "um", "us", "up", 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is übe, spelled Ü-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben
Frequency rank: #20,811 in German
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