up
[ʌp]
The verdict
“up” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,907) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,907
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nach oben
Corpus desk
Index DE-up · up · German
up · rank #1,907 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,907
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Studenten
Nearest frequency peer: Studenten (-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 „up“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- sparen
sparen
98,097 corpus weight
- steigt
steigt
98,096 corpus weight
- Studenten
Studenten
98,095 corpus weight
- up
up
98,094 corpus weight
- Veranstaltu…
Veranstaltung
98,093 corpus weight
- vieles
vieles
98,092 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „up“ 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 | up |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ʌp] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „up“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for up is neighbouring look-alikes ("us", "UV", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [ʌp]. Frequency #1,907 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Gloss: "nach oben".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for up, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "UV", "USA", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is up, spelled U-P.
Definition
- 1nach oben
Antonyms
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.