Überbegriff
[ˈyːbɐbəˌɡʁɪf]
The verdict
“Überbegriff” is uncommon German (frequency #96,592 among 443 “Ü” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,592
- frequency rank, German
- 443
- “Ü” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Generalisierung oder Oberklasse eines Begriffes
Corpus desk
Index DE-uberbegriff · Überbegriff · German
Überbegriff · rank #96,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,592
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 443
- PHOTO-FINISH Ösis
Nearest frequency peer: Ösis (-2 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 „Überbegriff“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- été
été
3,415 corpus weight
- Ölfarbe
Ölfarbe
3,413 corpus weight
- Ölfeld
Ölfeld
3,412 corpus weight
- Ösis
Ösis
3,411 corpus weight
- Überbegriff
Überbegriff
3,409 corpus weight
- übergezogen
übergezogen
3,407 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Überbegriff“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Überbegriff |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈyːbɐbəˌɡʁɪf] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Überbegriff“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Überbegriff is uncommon German at frequency #96,592 among 443 “Ü” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈyːbɐbəˌɡʁɪf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Generalisierung oder Oberklasse eines Begriffes".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Überbegriff, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct German form is Überbegriff, spelled Ü-B-E-R-B-E-G-R-I-F-F.
Definition
- 1eine Generalisierung oder Oberklasse eines Begriffes
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Überbegriff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Architekturhistoriker tun sich schwer, für das territoriale Bauschaffen des 17. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland einen allgemeingültigen Überbegriff zu finden.“
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).