überführen
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,499
in German word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
überführen is aGermanverb. It means: einem Täter eine Tat nachweisen (auch übertragen, ironisch) Pronounced [ˌyːbɐˈfyːʁən]. Often confused with überführt and überqueren.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | überführen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌyːbɐˈfyːʁən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for überführen is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌyːbɐˈfyːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,499 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for überführen, with forms such as "büerführen", "übberführen", and "übefrühren". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "überführt", "überqueren", "unerfahren", 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 überführen, spelled Ü-B-E-R-F-Ü-H-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einem Täter eine Tat nachweisen (auch übertragen, ironisch)
- 2eine Person oder Sache von einem Ort zu einem anderen bewegen, transportieren
- 3etwas, oft unter Anwendung eines bewährten Verfahrens aus einer in eine andere bestimmte, standardisierte Form bringen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: büerführen,übberführen,übefrühren,überfführen,überfhüren,überfühern,überfühhren,überführenn,überführne,überführren,überfürhen,überrführen,überüfhren,übreführen,üebrführen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "überführen"
Frequency rank: #21,499 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter Ü in our German index: