Dunkle Energie
[ˌdʊŋklə ʔenɛʁˈɡiː]
The verdict
“Dunkle Energie” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - hypothetische Form der Energie, mit der die beschleunigte Expansion des Universums begründet wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dunkle Energie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌdʊŋklə ʔenɛʁˈɡiː] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dunkle Energie” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Dunkle Energie is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌdʊŋklə ʔenɛʁˈɡiː]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "hypothetische Form der Energie, mit der die beschleunigte Expansion des Universums begründet wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dunkle Energie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Dunkle Energie, spelled D-U-N-K-L-E- -E-N-E-R-G-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1hypothetische Form der Energie, mit der die beschleunigte Expansion des Universums begründet wird
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Using “Dunkle Energie”
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- The one correct German spelling is D-U-N-K-L-E- -E-N-E-R-G-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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