UV
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,613
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
UV is anGermanabbrev. It means: ultraviolett, Ultraviolett Pronounced [uːˈfaʊ̯]. Often confused with Uwe and UWG.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | UV |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbrev |
| IPA | [uːˈfaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #12,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for UV is 2 letters long, classified as anabbrev, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uːˈfaʊ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,613 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 UV 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, "Uwe", "UWG", "UVP", 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 UV, spelled U-V, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ultraviolett, Ultraviolett
- 2Umlaufvermögen
- 3Unabhängige Variable
- 4Unfallversicherung
Frequency rank: #12,613 in German
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