Überflutung
[yːbɐˈfluːtʊŋ]
The verdict
“Überflutung” is uncommon German (frequency #54,275 among 443 “Ü” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,275
- frequency rank, German
- 443
- “Ü” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vollständiges Bedecken (mit Wasser)
Corpus desk
Index DE-uberflutung · Überflutung · German
Überflutung · rank #54,275 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,275
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 443
- PHOTO-FINISH Ötzi
Nearest frequency peer: Ötzi (-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 „Überflutung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Ärmeln
Ärmeln
45,729 corpus weight
- Öls
Öls
45,728 corpus weight
- Ötzi
Ötzi
45,727 corpus weight
- Überflutung
Überflutung
45,726 corpus weight
- Überfüllung
Überfüllung
45,725 corpus weight
- überkam
überkam
45,723 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Überflutung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Überflutung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [yːbɐˈfluːtʊŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Überflutung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Überflutung is uncommon German at frequency #54,275 among 443 “Ü” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [yːbɐˈfluːtʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "vollständiges Bedecken (mit Wasser)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Überflutung in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Überflutung, spelled Ü-B-E-R-F-L-U-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1vollständiges Bedecken (mit Wasser)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Überflutung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der anhaltende Regen führte zu einer Überflutung der Felder.
„Die Forscher stellten fest, dass die Menge des bei Überflutungen abgelagerten Schlamms um 1200 drastisch zunahm.“
Antonyms
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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