Upgrade
[ˈapɡʁeːt]
The verdict
“Upgrade” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,574. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,574
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verbesserung der Qualität, der Leistung oder der Benutzerfreundlichkeit eines Produktes oder einer Dienstleistung
Corpus desk
Index DE-upgrade · Upgrade · German
Upgrade · rank #16,574 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,574
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Valentinstag
Nearest frequency peer: Valentinstag (+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 „Upgrade“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- tätige
tätige
83,430 corpus weight
- täuscht
täuscht
83,429 corpus weight
- Upgrade
Upgrade
83,427 corpus weight
- Valentinstag
Valentinstag
83,426 corpus weight
- verbrauchen
verbrauchen
83,425 corpus weight
- Verbrennung
Verbrennung
83,424 corpus weight
What this shows „Upgrade“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Upgrade |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapɡʁeːt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Upgrade“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Upgrade (IPA [ˈapɡʁeːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,574 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Upgrade, with forms such as "pugrade", "ugprade", and "upgarde". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Ungnade", "ungerade", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Upgrade, spelled U-P-G-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Verbesserung der Qualität, der Leistung oder der Benutzerfreundlichkeit eines Produktes oder einer Dienstleistung
- 2das Einspielen einer neuen Version einer Basissoftware, die gegenüber dem vorigen Softwarestand erweiterte Funktionalitäten enthält
- 3die Verbesserung der Rechenleistung eines Computers durch hardwareseitige Aufrüstung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Upgrade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mit der roten Taste wählst du die Upgrades aus und mit der grünen Taste änderst du die Position der Drohnen.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pugrade
- ugprade
- upgarde
- upggrade
- upgradde
- upgraed
- upgrdae
- upgrrade
- uppgrade
- uprgade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Upgrade - 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.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Upgrade", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).