uomo

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The verdict

“uomo” is uncommon German (frequency #92,373 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#92,373
frequency rank, German
2,159
“U” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mensch (Homo sapiens)

Corpus desk

Index DE-uomo · uomo · German

uomo · rank #92,373 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #92,373
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,159
  • PHOTO-FINISH unzuverlässige

Nearest frequency peer: unzuverlässige (-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 „uomo“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „uomo“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for uomo
PropertyValue
Headworduomo
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters4
Frequency rank#92,373
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „uomo“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.uomofällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „unzuverlässige“ (#92,372), „utopischer“ (#92,374), „unwirtlichen“ (#92,371). Unter 2,159 „U“-Lemmata liegt „uomo“ bei #92,373. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

uomo is uncommon German at frequency #92,373 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for uomo in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

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 uomo, spelled U-O-M-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mensch (Homo sapiens)
  2. 2
    männlicher, erwachsener Vertreter von [1]; Mann
  3. 3
    Ehemann, Mann, Freund
  4. 4
    Mitglied einer Mannschaft; Mann

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how uomo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tutti e due sono uomini.
  2. Carlo è un uomo e Antonia è una donna.

Antonyms

animaledonna

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 "uomo"?
"uomo" is spelled U-O-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "uomo" mean?
As a noun, "uomo" means: Mensch (Homo sapiens)
How do you pronounce "uomo"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tear#92,298wank#92,448yara#92,490aide#92,552

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list