uso
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The verdict
“uso” is uncommon German (frequency #76,329 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,329
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gebrauch
Corpus desk
Index DE-uso · uso · German
uso · rank #76,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,329
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH uro
Nearest frequency peer: uro (-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 „uso“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Unwetters
Unwetters
23,676 corpus weight
- unzufrieden…
unzufriedener
23,675 corpus weight
- uro
uro
23,673 corpus weight
- uso
uso
23,672 corpus weight
- variables
variables
23,670 corpus weight
- variierte
variierte
23,669 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „uso“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uso |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „uso“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
uso is uncommon German at frequency #76,329 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for uso in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 uso, spelled U-S-O.
Definition
- 1Gebrauch
- 2Benutzung, Verwendung, Anwendung, Einnahme
- 3Genuss
- 4Übung, Praxis
- 5(Verwendungs)Zweck, Sinn
- 6Brauch, Sitte, Angewohnheit
- 7Nießbrauch
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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