Ufa
[ʊfa]
The verdict
“Ufa” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #42,880 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #42,880
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die Hauptstadt der Republik Baschkortostan in Russland
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 | Ufa |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ʊfa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ufa” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ufa is 3 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʊfa]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,880 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Hauptstadt der Republik Baschkortostan in Russland".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ufa, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Ufa, spelled U-F-A.
Definition
- 1die Hauptstadt der Republik Baschkortostan in Russland
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.
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Using “Ufa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is U-F-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʊfa] (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. Ufa vs um
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.