UCI
The verdict
“UCI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,259) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,259
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Union Cycliste Internationale: der Weltradsportverband
Corpus desk
Index DE-uci · UCI · German
UCI · rank #40,259 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,259
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH tödliches
Nearest frequency peer: tödliches (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „UCI“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- tunlichst
tunlichst
59,744 corpus weight
- tödliches
tödliches
59,743 corpus weight
- UCI
UCI
59,742 corpus weight
- umgebauten
umgebauten
59,741 corpus weight
- unangetastet
unangetastet
59,740 corpus weight
- undicht
undicht
59,739 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „UCI“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | UCI |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „UCI“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for UCI is neighbouring look-alikes ("um", "us", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #40,259 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Union Cycliste Internationale: der Weltradsportverband".
No misspelling variants are generated for UCI in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "um", "us", "up", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is UCI, spelled U-C-I.
Definition
- 1Union Cycliste Internationale: der Weltradsportverband
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how UCI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Kontrolleure des Internationalen Radsportverbandes (UCI) müssten nun durch einen Abgleich der Testergebnisse mit den Patientenkarteien klären, ob sich die Profis korrekt verhalten oder doch gedopt haben.“
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
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).