usher
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The verdict
“usher” is uncommon German (frequency #54,984 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,984
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden hinführen, an einen Ort führen
Corpus desk
Index DE-usher · usher · German
usher · rank #54,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,984
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Urlaubstag
Nearest frequency peer: Urlaubstag (-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 „usher“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- 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
- vector
vector
45,015 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „usher“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usher |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „usher“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
usher is uncommon German at frequency #54,984 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for usher, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is usher, spelled U-S-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1jemanden hinführen, an einen Ort führen
- 2etwas Neues einleiten/ einführen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how usher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages,…
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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