übt
The verdict
“übt” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #9,666 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #9,666
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | übt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [yːpt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “übt” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for übt is 3 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [yːpt]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,666 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for übt in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "um", "us", "up", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is übt, spelled Ü-B-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben
- 22. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben
- 32. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs üben
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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Using “übt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Ü-B-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [yːpt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “um” - see the side-by-side comparison. übt vs um
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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