Uranus
[ˈuːʁanʊs]
The verdict
“Uranus” is uncommon German (frequency #54,982 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,982
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - siebter und drittgrößter Planet unseres Sonnensystems
Corpus desk
Index DE-uranus · Uranus · German
Uranus · rank #54,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,982
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Urania
Nearest frequency peer: Urania (-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 „Uranus“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- unwiderspro…
unwidersprochen
45,021 corpus weight
- Urania
Urania
45,020 corpus weight
- Uranus
Uranus
45,019 corpus weight
- Urlaubstag
Urlaubstag
45,018 corpus weight
- usher
usher
45,017 corpus weight
- values
values
45,016 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Uranus“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Uranus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈuːʁanʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Uranus“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Uranus is uncommon German at frequency #54,982 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈuːʁanʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Uranus has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Uranus, spelled U-R-A-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1siebter und drittgrößter Planet unseres Sonnensystems
- 2griechisch-römischer Gott des Himmels, Vater von Saturn
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Uranus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Uranus besitzt eine Achsenneigung von beinahe 90°.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).