überholt
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,161
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
überholt is anGermanadj. It means: nicht den jeweiligen Bedingungen der aktuellen Zeit entsprechend, durch Änderung der Verhältnisse oder Weiterentwicklung/Zugewinn an Kenntnissen; nur in einer vergangenen Zeit gültig Pronounced [ˌyːbɐˈhoːlt]. It ranks #8,161 in German word frequency. Often confused with unerhört and überrollt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | überholt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˌyːbɐˈhoːlt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for überholt is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌyːbɐˈhoːlt]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,161 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for überholt, with forms such as "büerholt", "übberholt", and "übehrolt". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "unerhört", "überrollt", "überholte", 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 überholt, spelled Ü-B-E-R-H-O-L-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nicht den jeweiligen Bedingungen der aktuellen Zeit entsprechend, durch Änderung der Verhältnisse oder Weiterentwicklung/Zugewinn an Kenntnissen; nur in einer vergangenen Zeit gültig
- 2insgesamt kontrolliert und gepflegt/gegebenenfalls repariert/erneuert und so vollständig gebrauchsfertig gemacht
- 3auf derselben Strecke von sich in gleicher Richtung bewegendem Objekt durch höhere Geschwindigkeit passiert
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: büerholt,übberholt,übehrolt,überhholt,überhlot,überhollt,überholtt,überhotl,überohlt,überrholt,übreholt,üebrholt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for überholt
Misspelling Variants of "überholt"
Frequency rank: #8,161 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter Ü in our German index: