USD
The verdict
“USD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,384) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,384
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - internationaler Währungscode für US-Dollar/United States Dollar, die Währung der USA
Corpus desk
Index DE-usd · USD · German
USD · rank #10,384 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,384
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH unterstützte
Nearest frequency peer: unterstützte (-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 “USD”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- UdSSR
UdSSR
89,620 corpus weight
- ungerecht
ungerecht
89,619 corpus weight
- unterstützte
unterstützte
89,618 corpus weight
- USD
USD
89,617 corpus weight
- Venezuela
Venezuela
89,616 corpus weight
- veranlasst
veranlasst
89,615 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “USD” 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 | USD |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “USD” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for USD is neighbouring look-alikes ("UV", "Uwe", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #10,384 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Gloss: "internationaler Währungscode für US-Dollar/United States Dollar, die Währung der USA".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for USD, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "UV", "Uwe", "Ute", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 USD, spelled U-S-D.
Definition
- 1internationaler Währungscode für US-Dollar/United States Dollar, die Währung der USA
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how USD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 USD = 100 Cents
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "USD" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "UV". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #10,384 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "U" letter cohort. U–Z browse
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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.