UTC
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,815
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
UTC is anGermanabbrev. It means: Koordinierte Weltzeit; die Referenzzeit, von der die Ortszeiten in den verschiedenen Zeitzonen der Erde abgeleitet werden Pronounced [ˌuːteːˈt͡seː]. Often confused with UV and Uwe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | UTC |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbrev |
| IPA | [ˌuːteːˈt͡seː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for UTC is 3 letters long, classified as anabbrev, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌuːteːˈt͡seː]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,815 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for UTC in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is UTC, spelled U-T-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Koordinierte Weltzeit; die Referenzzeit, von der die Ortszeiten in den verschiedenen Zeitzonen der Erde abgeleitet werden
- 2Ein Komitee, das den technischen Inhalt des Unicode-Standards festlegt
- 3Eine US-amerikanische Firma
- 4Ein Endgerät eines Netzwerkes (Anwendung oder Computer), dessen Funktion rein die Anzeige von Daten ist
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #21,815 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter U in our German index: