überlegener
The verdict
“überlegener” is an uncommon German word, ranked #72,099 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #72,099
- frequency rank, German
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Prädikative und adverbielle Form des Komparativs des Adjektivs überlegen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | überlegener |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˌyːbɐˈleːɡənɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “überlegener” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for überlegener is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌyːbɐˈleːɡənɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #72,099 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for überlegener in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 überlegener, spelled Ü-B-E-R-L-E-G-E-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prädikative und adverbielle Form des Komparativs des Adjektivs überlegen
- 2Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs überlegen
- 3Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs überlegen
- 4Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs überlegen
- 5Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs überlegen
- 6Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs überlegen
Frequency rank: #72,099 in German
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Using “überlegener”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Ü-B-E-R-L-E-G-E-N-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌyːbɐˈleːɡənɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby German words
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