übertragen
[ˌyːbɐˈtʁaːɡn̩]
The verdict
“übertragen” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #2,228. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,228
- frequency rank, German
- 443
- “Ü” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Wort nicht im ursprünglichen Sinne verwendet
Corpus desk
Index DE-ubertragen · übertragen · German
übertragen · rank #2,228 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,228
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 443
- PHOTO-FINISH Württemberg
Nearest frequency peer: Württemberg (-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 „übertragen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- with
with
97,776 corpus weight
- Worten
Worten
97,775 corpus weight
- Württemberg
Württemberg
97,774 corpus weight
- übertragen
übertragen
97,773 corpus weight
- Angebote
Angebote
97,772 corpus weight
- Anhänger
Anhänger
97,771 corpus weight
What this shows „übertragen“ 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 | übertragen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˌyːbɐˈtʁaːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „übertragen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around übertragen (IPA [ˌyːbɐˈtʁaːɡn̩]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,228 among 443 “Ü” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for übertragen, with forms such as "büertragen", "übbertragen", and "überrtagen". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "übertreten", "Übertragung", "übertragene", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is übertragen, spelled Ü-B-E-R-T-R-A-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1ein Wort nicht im ursprünglichen Sinne verwendet
- 2gebraucht, wiederverkauft
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how übertragen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In den meisten Wörterbüchern kommt das Wort „Seitensprung“ nur in der übertragenen Bedeutung vor.
Das meinte ich sowohl im wörtlichen, wie im übertragenen Sinne.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- büertragen
- übbertragen
- überrtagen
- überrtragen
- übertargen
- übertraegn
- übertragenn
- übertraggen
- übertragne
- übertrgaen
- übertrragen
- überttragen
- übetrragen
- übretragen
- üebrtragen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of übertragen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "übertragen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).