upgrades
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The verdict
“upgrades” is uncommon German (frequency #50,137 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,137
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs upgrade
Corpus desk
Index DE-upgrades · upgrades · German
upgrades · rank #50,137 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,137
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Unwillen
Nearest frequency peer: Unwillen (-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 „upgrades“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- unternehme
unternehme
49,868 corpus weight
- unterscheid…
unterscheidbar
49,866 corpus weight
- Unwillen
Unwillen
49,865 corpus weight
- upgrades
upgrades
49,864 corpus weight
- Urbanisieru…
Urbanisierung
49,863 corpus weight
- verabscheuen
verabscheuen
49,861 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „upgrades“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | upgrades |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „upgrades“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
upgrades is uncommon German at frequency #50,137 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs upgrade".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for upgrades, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is upgrades, spelled U-P-G-R-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs upgrade
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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