Ulf
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The verdict
“Ulf” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,408) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,408
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-ulf · Ulf · German
Ulf · rank #18,408 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,408
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Trainingslager
Nearest frequency peer: Trainingslager (-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 „Ulf“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „Ulf“ 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 | Ulf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ulf“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ulf is neighbouring look-alikes ("um", "us", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced […]. Frequency #18,408 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Gloss: "männlicher Vorname".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Ulf, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Ulf, spelled U-L-F.
Definition
- 1männlicher Vorname
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ulf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ulf spielt sehr gut Tennis.
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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