überbacken
[yːbɐˈbakn̩]
The verdict
“überbacken” is uncommon German (frequency #52,616 among 443 “Ü” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,616
- frequency rank, German
- 443
- “Ü” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas kurz, oberflächlich backen, meist mit einer bestimmten Zutat (zum Beispiel Käse) bedeckt
Corpus desk
Index DE-uberbacken · überbacken · German
überbacken · rank #52,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,616
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 443
- PHOTO-FINISH ängstlichen
Nearest frequency peer: ängstlichen (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „überbacken“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Zwielicht
Zwielicht
47,388 corpus weight
- zynischen
zynischen
47,387 corpus weight
- ängstlichen
ängstlichen
47,386 corpus weight
- überbacken
überbacken
47,385 corpus weight
- Überdachung
Überdachung
47,384 corpus weight
- Überflieger
Überflieger
47,383 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „überbacken“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | überbacken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [yːbɐˈbakn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „überbacken“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
überbacken is uncommon German at frequency #52,616 among 443 “Ü” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [yːbɐˈbakn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas kurz, oberflächlich backen, meist mit einer bestimmten Zutat (zum Beispiel Käse) bedeckt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for überbacken, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 überbacken, spelled Ü-B-E-R-B-A-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas kurz, oberflächlich backen, meist mit einer bestimmten Zutat (zum Beispiel Käse) bedeckt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how überbacken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich überbacke die Lasagne mit Gouda.
Zuletzt den Auflauf mit der Soße bedecken und kurz im Ofen bei 200 °C überbacken, warm servieren.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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