umělec
The verdict
“umělec” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: jemand, der in der Kunst schöpferisch tätig ist; Künstler
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umělec |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊmɲɛlɛt͡s] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “umělec” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for umělec is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊmɲɛlɛt͡s]. 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: "jemand, der in der Kunst schöpferisch tätig ist; Künstler".
No misspelling variants are generated for umělec 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 umělec, spelled U-M-Ě-L-E-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemand, der in der Kunst schöpferisch tätig ist; Künstler
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is U-M-Ě-L-E-C — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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