Yuppie
[ˈjʊpi]
The verdict
“Yuppie” is uncommon German (frequency #92,494 among 67 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,494
- frequency rank, German
- 67
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - karrierebewusster, junger Erwachsener der städtischen oberen Mittelschicht, der großen Wert auf sein äußeres Erscheinungsbild und seine soziale sowie wirtschaftliche Stellung legt
Corpus desk
Index DE-yuppie · Yuppie · German
Yuppie · rank #92,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,494
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 67
- PHOTO-FINISH yara
Nearest frequency peer: yara (-4 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 „Yuppie“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wärmequelle
Wärmequelle
7,515 corpus weight
- Xylophon
Xylophon
7,513 corpus weight
- yara
yara
7,511 corpus weight
- Yuppie
Yuppie
7,507 corpus weight
- zehnjähriges
zehnjähriges
7,502 corpus weight
- Zeitnot
Zeitnot
7,501 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Yuppie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yuppie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjʊpi] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Yuppie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Yuppie is uncommon German at frequency #92,494 among 67 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈjʊpi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "karrierebewusster, junger Erwachsener der städtischen oberen Mittelschicht, der großen Wert auf sein äußeres Erscheinungsbild und seine soziale sowie wirtschaftliche Stellung legt".
Yuppie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Yuppie, spelled Y-U-P-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1karrierebewusster, junger Erwachsener der städtischen oberen Mittelschicht, der großen Wert auf sein äußeres Erscheinungsbild und seine soziale sowie wirtschaftliche Stellung legt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Yuppie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der komsumbewusste, sich selbst inszenierende Yuppie wird zu einem stilprägenden Phänomen der achtziger Jahre.“
„Die Wirtschaft entdeckte den Yuppie, den Ultrakonsumenten, der in dem, was er kauft, auch ausdrückt, was er denkt.“
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.
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