Uri
[ˈuːʁi]
The verdict
“Uri” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,109) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,109
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-uri · Uri · German
Uri · rank #27,109 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,109
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Unterzahl
Nearest frequency peer: Unterzahl (-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 „Uri“
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- Unternehmen…
Unternehmensführung
72,894 corpus weight
- Unterzahl
Unterzahl
72,893 corpus weight
- Uri
Uri
72,892 corpus weight
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Utah
72,891 corpus weight
- VDI
VDI
72,890 corpus weight
- verabschied…
verabschiedeten
72,889 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Uri“ 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 | Uri |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈuːʁi] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Uri“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Uri is neighbouring look-alikes ("us", "UV", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈuːʁi]. Frequency #27,109 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Gloss: "männlicher Vorname".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Uri, 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Uri, spelled U-R-I.
Definition
- 1männlicher Vorname
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Uri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Uri spielt sehr gut Tennis.
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 "Uri", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).