UTF
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The verdict
“UTF” is uncommon German (frequency #85,983 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,983
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Unicode Transformation Format
Corpus desk
Index DE-utf · UTF · German
UTF · rank #85,983 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,983
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Urwälder
Nearest frequency peer: Urwälder (-2 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 „UTF“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- unterhaltet
unterhaltet
14,022 corpus weight
- Unterlauf
Unterlauf
14,021 corpus weight
- Urwälder
Urwälder
14,020 corpus weight
- UTF
UTF
14,018 corpus weight
- vaginale
vaginale
14,015 corpus weight
- Valladolid
Valladolid
14,014 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „UTF“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | UTF |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „UTF“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
UTF is uncommon German at frequency #85,983 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abkürzung für Unicode Transformation Format".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for UTF, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 UTF, spelled U-T-F.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Unicode Transformation Format
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how UTF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„UTF-8 has 8-bit code units. It builds a bridge between the legacy ASCII encoding and Unicode. ASCII has only 128 characters, whose numbers are the same as the first 128 Unicode code points. UTF-8 is backward compatible, because all ASCII codes are valid code units. […]“
„UTF-8 uses 1 byte (8-bits) to represent characters in the ASCII set, and two or three bytes for the rest. UTF-16 uses 2 bytes (16 bits) for most characters, and four bytes for the rest.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).