Ulan
[uˈlaːn]
The verdict
“Ulan” is uncommon German (frequency #76,303 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,303
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - früher „mit einer Lanze bewaffneter Reiter“
Corpus desk
Index DE-ulan · Ulan · German
Ulan · rank #76,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,303
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH umfassendere
Nearest frequency peer: umfassendere (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Ulan“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- tunesischer
tunesischer
23,702 corpus weight
- Udine
Udine
23,701 corpus weight
- Ulan
Ulan
23,698 corpus weight
- umfassendere
umfassendere
23,697 corpus weight
- Umgebungste…
Umgebungstemperatur
23,696 corpus weight
- umrechnen
umrechnen
23,695 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ulan“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ulan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [uˈlaːn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ulan“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ulan is uncommon German at frequency #76,303 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [uˈlaːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "früher „mit einer Lanze bewaffneter Reiter“".
Zero misspellings are on record for Ulan in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Ulan, spelled U-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1früher „mit einer Lanze bewaffneter Reiter“
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ulan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sportsboote fuhren vorbei, und dann liefen Torpedoboote und ein großer, mit abgekämpften Ulanen und Dragonern überfüllter Transportdampfer ein.“
„Als er der Kolonne immer näher kam, ritten ein paar Ulanen auf ihn zu, mit Lanzen und Fähnchen, auf denen die Nummer des Regiments in grellen Farben stand, sie winkten ihm, daß er sich entfernen solle.“
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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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