Umgegend
[ˈʊmˌɡeːɡn̩t]
The verdict
“Umgegend” is uncommon German (frequency #70,907 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,907
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der (etwas größere) räumliche Bereich um etwas herum; Umfeld oder Umland
Corpus desk
Index DE-umgegend · Umgegend · German
Umgegend · rank #70,907 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,907
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH umdrehte
Nearest frequency peer: umdrehte (-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 „Umgegend“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Tänzchen
Tänzchen
29,098 corpus weight
- 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
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Umgegend“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Umgegend |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊmˌɡeːɡn̩t] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Umgegend“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Umgegend is uncommon German at frequency #70,907 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʊmˌɡeːɡn̩t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der (etwas größere) räumliche Bereich um etwas herum; Umfeld oder Umland".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Umgegend, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Umgegend, spelled U-M-G-E-G-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1der (etwas größere) räumliche Bereich um etwas herum; Umfeld oder Umland
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Umgegend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein stattlicher Jüngling begleitete sie; er soll bereits ihr Verlobter und der Sohn eines wohlhabenden Fabrikherrn aus der Umgegend sein.“
„Er kam zu den Kosaken, erkundigte sich, wo er sein dem Korps Platow angehörendes Regiment finden könnte, und gelangte gegen Abend zu seinem Herrn Nikolai Rostow, der in Jankowo im Quartier lag und gerade in den Sattel gestiegen war, um mit Iljin einen Spazierritt durch die Dörfer der Umgegend zu machen.“
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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