USV
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The verdict
“USV” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,694) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,694
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung
Corpus desk
Index DE-usv · USV · German
USV · rank #36,694 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,694
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Unzucht
Nearest frequency peer: Unzucht (-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 „USV“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- unterstellt…
unterstellten
63,310 corpus weight
- unvernünftig
unvernünftig
63,309 corpus weight
- Unzucht
Unzucht
63,308 corpus weight
- USV
USV
63,307 corpus weight
- Varietät
Varietät
63,306 corpus weight
- Ventilatoren
Ventilatoren
63,305 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „USV“ 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 | USV |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „USV“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for USV is neighbouring look-alikes ("UV", "Uwe", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #36,694 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for USV, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "UV", "Uwe", "Ute", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is USV, spelled U-S-V.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung
This word in other languages
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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