Überschwang
[ˈyːbɐˌʃvaŋ]
The verdict
“Überschwang” is uncommon German (frequency #69,946 among 443 “Ü” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,946
- frequency rank, German
- 443
- “Ü” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - übertriebener Gefühlsausbruch, übertriebene Begeisterung
Corpus desk
Index DE-uberschwang · Überschwang · German
Überschwang · rank #69,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,946
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 443
- PHOTO-FINISH übertrage
Nearest frequency peer: übertrage (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Überschwang“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- überfluten
überfluten
30,059 corpus weight
- überflüssig…
überflüssiger
30,058 corpus weight
- Überlebensk…
Überlebenskampf
30,057 corpus weight
- Überschwang
Überschwang
30,055 corpus weight
- übertrage
übertrage
30,054 corpus weight
- üppiges
üppiges
30,053 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Überschwang“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Überschwang |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈyːbɐˌʃvaŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Überschwang“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Überschwang is uncommon German at frequency #69,946 among 443 “Ü” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈyːbɐˌʃvaŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Überschwang in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Überschwang, spelled Ü-B-E-R-S-C-H-W-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1übertriebener Gefühlsausbruch, übertriebene Begeisterung
- 2übertriebene Menge
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Überschwang appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Überschwang aber zeigt sich eher nach außen, Furcht wirkt stärker nach innen.“
„Was wie im Kongo meist im Überschwang der Unabhängigkeitsfeiern beginnt, endet fast überall in Agonie.“
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).