UE
[y.ø]
The verdict
“UE” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,314) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,314
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - EU
Corpus desk
Index DE-ue · UE · German
UE · rank #31,314 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,314
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH umfunktioniert
Nearest frequency peer: umfunktioniert (+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 „UE“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- trouble
trouble
68,690 corpus weight
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Trägerin
68,689 corpus weight
- UE
UE
68,687 corpus weight
- umfunktioni…
umfunktioniert
68,686 corpus weight
- umringt
umringt
68,685 corpus weight
- Umzüge
Umzüge
68,684 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „UE“ 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 | UE |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [y.ø] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #31,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „UE“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for UE is neighbouring look-alikes ("um", "us", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [y.ø]. Frequency #31,314 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Gloss: "EU".
Zero misspellings are on record for UE in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is UE, spelled U-E.
Definition
- 1EU
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.