Überlieferung
[ˌyːbɐˈliːfəʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“Überlieferung” has 19 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,646. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,646
- frequency rank, German
- 443
- “Ü” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Erhalt, Weitergabe historischer Gegebenheiten
Corpus desk
Index DE-uberlieferung · Überlieferung · German
Überlieferung · rank #12,646 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,646
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 443
- PHOTO-FINISH überholen
Nearest frequency peer: überholen (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Überlieferung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Zentrums
Zentrums
87,359 corpus weight
- zerstörte
zerstörte
87,358 corpus weight
- überholen
überholen
87,356 corpus weight
- Überlieferu…
Überlieferung
87,355 corpus weight
- überstehen
überstehen
87,354 corpus weight
- alljährlich
alljährlich
87,352 corpus weight
What this shows „Überlieferung“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Überlieferung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌyːbɐˈliːfəʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #12,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Überlieferung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around Überlieferung (IPA [ˌyːbɐˈliːfəʁʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,646 among 443 “Ü” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for Überlieferung, with forms such as "büerlieferung", "übberlieferung", and "übelrieferung". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Überlieferungen", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Überlieferung, spelled Ü-B-E-R-L-I-E-F-E-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Erhalt, Weitergabe historischer Gegebenheiten
- 2die erhaltene historische Gegebenheit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Überlieferung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bescheidenheit lehrt ein kurzer Rückblick auf die reichhaltigen Überlieferungen aus früheren Epochen.“
„Der Überlieferung nach war der heilige Patrick derjenige, dem die Christianisierung Irlands zu verdanken ist.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- büerlieferung
- übberlieferung
- übelrieferung
- überileferung
- überleiferung
- überlieefrung
- überliefernug
- überlieferrung
- überlieferugn
- überlieferungg
- überlieferunng
- überliefeurng
- überliefferung
- überliefreung
- überlifeerung
- überllieferung
- überrlieferung
- übrelieferung
- üebrlieferung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Überlieferung - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Überlieferung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).