uranium
[jʊˈreɪniəm]
The verdict
“uranium” is uncommon German (frequency #97,880 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,880
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Uran
Corpus desk
Index DE-uranium · uranium · German
uranium · rank #97,880 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,880
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH unverschämter
Nearest frequency peer: unverschämter (-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 „uranium“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- unvergleich…
unvergleichbar
2,124 corpus weight
- unverschämt…
unverschämter
2,122 corpus weight
- uranium
uranium
2,121 corpus weight
- ure
ure
2,120 corpus weight
- Urteilsfind…
Urteilsfindung
2,119 corpus weight
- Urzustand
Urzustand
2,118 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „uranium“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uranium |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [jʊˈreɪniəm] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „uranium“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
uranium is uncommon German at frequency #97,880 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [jʊˈreɪniəm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Uran".
Zero misspellings are on record for uranium in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is uranium, spelled U-R-A-N-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Uran
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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