USSR

[uːʔɛsʔɛsˈʔɛʁ]

/[uːʔɛsʔɛsˈʔɛʁ]/ abbrev

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The verdict

“USSR” is uncommon German (frequency #93,768 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,768
frequency rank, German
2,159
“U” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ukrainische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik

Corpus desk

Index DE-ussr · USSR · German

USSR · rank #93,768 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,768
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,159
  • PHOTO-FINISH useful

Nearest frequency peer: useful (-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 „USSR“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „USSR“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for USSR
PropertyValue
HeadwordUSSR
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbreviation
IPA[uːʔɛsʔɛsˈʔɛʁ]
Letters4
Frequency rank#93,768
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „USSR“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.USSRfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „useful“ (#93,767), „variierten“ (#93,769), „unüberwindbare“ (#93,766). Unter 2,159 „U“-Lemmata liegt „USSR“ bei #93,768. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

USSR is uncommon German at frequency #93,768 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed [uːʔɛsʔɛsˈʔɛʁ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ukrainische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for USSR, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is USSR, spelled U-S-S-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ukrainische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how USSR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Drei Jahre später, am 30. Dezember 1922, unterschrieb die USSR gemeinsam mit drei anderen sowjetischen Republiken das Abkommen zur Gründung der UdSSR und war so eine der Gründungsrepubliken der Sowjetunion.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "USSR"?
"USSR" is spelled U-S-S-R. The IPA pronunciation is [uːʔɛsʔɛsˈʔɛʁ].
What does "USSR" mean?
As an abbreviation, "USSR" means: Ukrainische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik
How do you pronounce "USSR"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "USSR" is [uːʔɛsʔɛsˈʔɛʁ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "USSR" come from?
"USSR" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "USSR", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Xmas#93,861Zita#93,873spül#93,635airs#93,917

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list