übersät

[yːbɐˈzɛːt]

/[yːbɐˈzɛːt]/ adj

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The verdict

“übersät” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #39,173. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,173
frequency rank, German
443
“Ü” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - über die ganze Fläche hin gleichmäßig mit etwas Gleichartigem bedeckt

Corpus desk

Index DE-ubersat · übersät · German

übersät · rank #39,173 · 10 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,173
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 443
  • PHOTO-FINISH überstellt

Nearest frequency peer: überstellt (-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 „übersät“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „übersät“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

übersät vs Übersee
57% similar
übersät vs übers
71% similar
übersät vs übelst
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for übersät
PropertyValue
Headwordübersät
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[yːbɐˈzɛːt]
Letters7
Frequency rank#39,173
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „übersät“

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.übersätliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „überstellt“ (#39,172), „übertreten“ (#39,174), „Überschwemmung“ (#39,171). Unter 443 „Ü“-Lemmata liegt „übersät“ bei #39,173. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around übersät (IPA [yːbɐˈzɛːt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,173 among 443 “Ü” headwords. Dominant gloss: "über die ganze Fläche hin gleichmäßig mit etwas Gleichartigem bedeckt".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for übersät, with forms such as "büersät", "übbersät", and "überrsät". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Übersee", "übers", "übelst", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is übersät, spelled Ü-B-E-R-S-Ä-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    über die ganze Fläche hin gleichmäßig mit etwas Gleichartigem bedeckt

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • büersät
  • übbersät
  • überrsät
  • überssät
  • überstä
  • übersätt
  • überäst
  • übesrät
  • übresät
  • üebrsät

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of übersät - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

büersät2übbersät1überrsät1überssät1überstä2übersätt1überäst2übesrät2
Edit distance from "übersät"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "übersät"?
"übersät" is spelled Ü-B-E-R-S-Ä-T. The IPA pronunciation is [yːbɐˈzɛːt].
What does "übersät" mean?
As an adjective, "übersät" means: über die ganze Fläche hin gleichmäßig mit etwas Gleichartigem bedeckt
What words are commonly confused with "übersät"?
"übersät" is commonly confused with "Übersee", "übers", "übelst". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "übersät"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "übersät" is [yːbɐˈzɛːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "übersät" come from?
"übersät" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "übersät", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Ökumene#39,167Zufluss#39,160Affront#39,191Amtmann#39,195

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Aargauer10 variantsanbeten10 variantswertete10 variantsaufführt10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list