university

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The verdict

“university” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,247. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,247
frequency rank, German
2,159
“U” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Universität, Hochschule

Corpus desk

Index DE-university · university · German

university · rank #6,247 · 15 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,247
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,159
  • PHOTO-FINISH TSV

Nearest frequency peer: TSV (-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.

Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „university“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „university“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

university vs video
20% similar
university vs user
30% similar
university vs windows
10% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for university
PropertyValue
Headworduniversity
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters10
Frequency rank#6,247
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „university“

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).universityliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „TSV“ (#6,246), „verarbeitet“ (#6,248), „trinkt“ (#6,245). Unter 2,159 „U“-Lemmata liegt „university“ bei #6,247. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around university (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,247 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Universität, Hochschule".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for university, with forms such as "nuiversity", "uinversity", and "unievrsity". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "video", "user", "windows", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is university, spelled U-N-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Universität, Hochschule

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • nuiversity
  • uinversity
  • unievrsity
  • univeristy
  • univerrsity
  • universitty
  • universityy
  • universiyt
  • universsity
  • universtiy
  • univesrity
  • univresity
  • univversity
  • unniversity
  • unviersity

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of university - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

nuiversity2uinversity2unievrsity2univeristy2univerrsity1universitty1universityy1universiyt2
Edit distance from "university"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "university"?
"university" is spelled U-N-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "university" mean?
As a noun, "university" means: Universität, Hochschule
What words are commonly confused with "university"?
"university" is commonly confused with "video", "user", "windows". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "university"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "university" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "university" come from?
"university" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "university", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sportliche#6,235Zigaretten#6,261angeschaut#6,267ausdrücken#6,272

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

stärksten15 variantsRücksicht15 variantsEinleitung15 variantsHistoriker15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list