Tübingen
/ˈt(j)uːbɪŋən/
"tubingen" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tübingen” is uncommon English (frequency #64,085 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,085
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and rural district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the Neckar, with a famous university; once capital of Würtemberg-Hohenzollern
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tübingen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈt(j)uːbɪŋən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tübingen” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tübingen is uncommon English at frequency #64,085 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈt(j)uːbɪŋən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town and rural district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the Neckar, with a famous university; once capital of Würtemberg-Hohenzollern".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tübingen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Tübingen. The correct English form is Tübingen, spelled T-Ü-B-I-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1A town and rural district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the Neckar, with a famous university; once capital of Würtemberg-Hohenzollern
Etymology
From German Tübingen.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is T-Ü-B-I-N-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.