USK
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The verdict
“USK” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,479) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,479
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unterstützungskommando, Teil der Spezialkräfte der Bayerischen Polizei
Corpus desk
Index DE-usk · USK · German
USK · rank #38,479 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,479
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Urlaubstage
Nearest frequency peer: Urlaubstage (-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 „USK“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- untreu
untreu
61,526 corpus weight
- Urknall
Urknall
61,524 corpus weight
- Urlaubstage
Urlaubstage
61,523 corpus weight
- USK
USK
61,522 corpus weight
- valide
valide
61,520 corpus weight
- Vandalen
Vandalen
61,519 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „USK“ 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 | USK |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „USK“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for USK is neighbouring look-alikes ("UV", "Uwe", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #38,479 among 2,159 “U” headwords. 8 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
USK has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is USK, spelled U-S-K.
Definition
- 1Unterstützungskommando, Teil der Spezialkräfte der Bayerischen Polizei
- 2Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
- 3Kanton Una-Sana, Kanton im äußersten Nordwesten Bosnien-Herzegowinas
- 4Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle, Stelle für Alterskennzeichnung von Computerspielen
- 5untersynchrone Stromrichterkaskade
- 6Universeller Semantischer Kode
- 7Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien, Bezeichnung für den kroatischen Vasallenstaat im Zweiten Weltkrieg
- 8IATA-Kode für die Stadt Ussinsk
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 "USK", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).