UWG
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The verdict
“UWG” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,209) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,209
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb
Corpus desk
Index DE-uwg · UWG · German
UWG · rank #26,209 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,209
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH uralt
Nearest frequency peer: uralt (-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 „UWG“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- unterrichte…
unterrichtete
73,795 corpus weight
- untrennbar
untrennbar
73,794 corpus weight
- uralt
uralt
73,793 corpus weight
- UWG
UWG
73,792 corpus weight
- veranschlagt
veranschlagt
73,791 corpus weight
- Verbrauchern
Verbrauchern
73,790 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „UWG“ 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 | UWG |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „UWG“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for UWG is neighbouring look-alikes ("video", "windows", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #26,209 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for UWG, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "video", "windows", "your", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is UWG, spelled U-W-G.
Definition
- 1Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb
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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