Überwindung
[yːbɐˈvɪndʊŋ]
The verdict
“Überwindung” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,017. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,017
- frequency rank, German
- 443
- “Ü” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anstreben/Erreichen eines gewünschten Ergebnisses trotz hinderlicher Gegebenheiten
Corpus desk
Index DE-uberwindung · Überwindung · German
Überwindung · rank #15,017 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,017
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 443
- PHOTO-FINISH überwiegende
Nearest frequency peer: überwiegende (-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 „Überwindung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Zuwanderer
Zuwanderer
84,987 corpus weight
- ängstlich
ängstlich
84,986 corpus weight
- überwiegende
überwiegende
84,985 corpus weight
- Überwindung
Überwindung
84,984 corpus weight
- Abläufe
Abläufe
84,983 corpus weight
- abweichende
abweichende
84,982 corpus weight
What this shows „Überwindung“ 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 | Überwindung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [yːbɐˈvɪndʊŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Überwindung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Überwindung (IPA [yːbɐˈvɪndʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,017 among 443 “Ü” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Überwindung, with forms such as "büerwindung", "übberwindung", and "überiwndung". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "überwinden", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Überwindung, spelled Ü-B-E-R-W-I-N-D-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Anstreben/Erreichen eines gewünschten Ergebnisses trotz hinderlicher Gegebenheiten
- 2Anstreben eines als wertvoll angesehenen Ziels gegen innere Widerstände
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Überwindung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sie hatten sich abgefunden mit dem bürgerlichen juste milieu, ihr Ideal war die Überwindung des Proletariers durch den kleinen gehobenen Bürger.“
„Erst nach Überwindung der Inflation erschien die erste Dauerserie mit dem neuen Reichsadler, dem wichtigsten Hoheitszeichen des Weimarer Staates.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- büerwindung
- übberwindung
- überiwndung
- überrwindung
- überwidnung
- überwinddung
- überwindnug
- überwindugn
- überwindungg
- überwindunng
- überwinndung
- überwinudng
- überwnidung
- überwwindung
- übewrindung
- übrewindung
- üebrwindung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Überwindung - 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 "Überwindung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).