übergeben
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,416
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
übergeben is aGermanverb. It means: jemandem etwas reichen, weitergeben Pronounced [yːbɐˈɡeːbn̩]. It ranks #3,416 in German word frequency. Often confused with überlegen and überleben.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | übergeben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [yːbɐˈɡeːbn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for übergeben is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [yːbɐˈɡeːbn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,416 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for übergeben, with forms such as "büergeben", "übbergeben", and "übegreben". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "überlegen", "überleben", "übersehen", 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 übergeben, spelled Ü-B-E-R-G-E-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemandem etwas reichen, weitergeben
- 2seinen Mageninhalt durch Speiseröhre und Mund entleeren
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: büergeben,übbergeben,übegreben,überegben,übergbeen,übergebben,übergebenn,übergebne,übergeebn,überggeben,überrgeben,übregeben,üebrgeben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for übergeben
Misspelling Variants of "übergeben"
Frequency rank: #3,416 in German
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