Tübingen
/ˈt(j)uːbɪŋən/
"tubingen" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tübingen” is uncommon English (frequency #64,085 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,085
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town and rural district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the Neckar, with a famous university; once capital of Würtemberg-Hohenzollern
Corpus desk
Index EN-tubingen · Tübingen · English
Tübingen · rank #64,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,085
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH umbrage
Nearest frequency peer: umbrage (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Tübingen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- turgid
turgid
35,923 corpus weight
- Turton
Turton
35,922 corpus weight
- Tübingen
Tübingen
35,916 corpus weight
- umbrage
umbrage
35,914 corpus weight
- unapproacha…
unapproachable
35,912 corpus weight
- unbeliever
unbeliever
35,911 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tübingen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Tübingen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tübingen is uncommon English at frequency #64,085 among 3,151 “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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