USP
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The verdict
“USP” is uncommon German (frequency #55,802 among 30,279 “U” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,802
- frequency rank, German
- 30,279
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alleinstellungsmerkmal für die Bewerbung und den Verkauf eines Produktes, einzigartiger Wettbewerbsvorteil, einzigartiges Verkaufsversprechen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | USP |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “USP” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
USP is uncommon German at frequency #55,802 among 30,279 “U” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alleinstellungsmerkmal für die Bewerbung und den Verkauf eines Produktes, einzigartiger Wettbewerbsvorteil, einzigartiges Verkaufsversprechen".
USP doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is USP, spelled U-S-P.
Definition
- 1Alleinstellungsmerkmal für die Bewerbung und den Verkauf eines Produktes, einzigartiger Wettbewerbsvorteil, einzigartiges Verkaufsversprechen
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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Using “USP”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is U-S-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.