USB
[uːʔɛsˈbeː]
The verdict
“USB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,245) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,245
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Standardisierte Schnittstelle zum Anschluss peripherer Geräte, wie Drucker, Tastatur, Maus, Massenspeicher usw., an einen Computer
Corpus desk
Index DE-usb · USB · German
USB · rank #7,245 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,245
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH unterstellt
Nearest frequency peer: unterstellt (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “USB”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Umfragen
Umfragen
92,759 corpus weight
- Umstand
Umstand
92,758 corpus weight
- unterstellt
unterstellt
92,757 corpus weight
- USB
USB
92,756 corpus weight
- Verbesserun…
Verbesserungen
92,755 corpus weight
- Vertretung
Vertretung
92,754 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “USB” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | USB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [uːʔɛsˈbeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “USB” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for USB is neighbouring look-alikes ("UV", "Uwe", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [uːʔɛsˈbeː]. Frequency #7,245 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Standardisierte Schnittstelle zum Anschluss peripherer Geräte, wie Drucker, Tastatur, Maus, Massenspeicher usw., an einen Computer".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for USB, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "UV", "Uwe", "USD", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is USB, spelled U-S-B.
Definition
- 1Standardisierte Schnittstelle zum Anschluss peripherer Geräte, wie Drucker, Tastatur, Maus, Massenspeicher usw., an einen Computer
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how USB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Über USB können heute zahlreiche Gerätetypen angeschlossen werden, die vor der USB-Einführung über eine größere Zahl verschiedener Schnittstellentypen angebunden wurden.“
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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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.