Ud
[uːt]
The verdict
“Ud” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,834) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,834
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - orientalisches Lauteninstrument
Corpus desk
Index DE-ud · Ud · German
Ud · rank #31,834 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,834
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH umfahren
Nearest frequency peer: umfahren (+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 „Ud“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „Ud“ 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 | Ud |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [uːt] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #31,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ud“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ud is neighbouring look-alikes ("um", "us", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [uːt]. Frequency #31,834 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Gloss: "orientalisches Lauteninstrument".
Ud doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Ud, spelled U-D.
Definition
- 1orientalisches Lauteninstrument
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nach dem Essen holen die Oasenbewohner Trommeln und eine Ud, ein arabisches Saiteninstrument.“
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.