uw
[yw]
The verdict
“uw” is uncommon German (frequency #70,923 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,923
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Possessivpronomen zum Personalpronomen zweiter Person (Höflichkeitsform) „u“: Ihr
Corpus desk
Index DE-uw · uw · German
uw · rank #70,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,923
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH vatikanische
Nearest frequency peer: vatikanische (+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 „uw“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Unruhestift…
Unruhestifter
29,082 corpus weight
- Unterkiefers
Unterkiefers
29,081 corpus weight
- unvorteilha…
unvorteilhaft
29,080 corpus weight
- uw
uw
29,078 corpus weight
- vatikanische
vatikanische
29,077 corpus weight
- Veganerin
Veganerin
29,075 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „uw“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uw |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [yw] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #70,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „uw“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
uw is uncommon German at frequency #70,923 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed [yw]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Possessivpronomen zum Personalpronomen zweiter Person (Höflichkeitsform) „u“: Ihr".
No generated misspelling entries exist for uw in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is uw, spelled U-W.
Definition
- 1Possessivpronomen zum Personalpronomen zweiter Person (Höflichkeitsform) „u“: Ihr
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how uw appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Het gaat om uw leven.
Claude is uw vriend?
Antonyms
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.