umgänglich
[ˈʊmɡɛŋlɪç]
The verdict
“umgänglich” is uncommon German (frequency #70,908 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,908
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - so beschaffen, dass gut mit ihm auszukommen ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-umganglich · umgänglich · German
umgänglich · rank #70,908 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,908
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Umgegend
Nearest frequency peer: Umgegend (-1 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 „umgänglich“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- umdrehte
umdrehte
29,095 corpus weight
- Umgegend
Umgegend
29,094 corpus weight
- umgänglich
umgänglich
29,093 corpus weight
- Umkleiden
Umkleiden
29,092 corpus weight
- umschlungen
umschlungen
29,090 corpus weight
- umzulegen
umzulegen
29,089 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „umgänglich“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umgänglich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊmɡɛŋlɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „umgänglich“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
umgänglich is uncommon German at frequency #70,908 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʊmɡɛŋlɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "so beschaffen, dass gut mit ihm auszukommen ist".
No generated misspelling entries exist for umgänglich in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is umgänglich, spelled U-M-G-Ä-N-G-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1so beschaffen, dass gut mit ihm auszukommen ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how umgänglich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er ist ja sonst ein umgänglicher Mensch, aber wenn er einen zu viel getrunken hat, wird er unausstehlich.
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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