umkippen
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,347
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
umkippen is aGermanverb. It means: aus einer aufrechten Position plötzlich in eine liegende geraten, meist über eine Kante; das Gleichgewicht verlieren und umstürzen Pronounced [ˈʊmˌkɪpn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umkippen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʊmˌkɪpn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for umkippen is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊmˌkɪpn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #46,347 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for umkippen, with forms such as "mukippen", "ukmippen", and "umikppen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 umkippen, spelled U-M-K-I-P-P-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aus einer aufrechten Position plötzlich in eine liegende geraten, meist über eine Kante; das Gleichgewicht verlieren und umstürzen
- 2bewusstlos werden
- 3durch zu hohen Nährstoffgehalt für Pflanzen und Tiere nicht mehr als Lebensraum geeignet werden
- 4plötzlich ins Gegenteil verkehren
- 5seine Meinung (auf Druck von anderen hin) unerwartet ändern
- 6etwas zu Fall bringen; bewirken, dass etwas umfällt (im Sinne von [1])
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mukippen,ukmippen,umikppen,umkipen,umkipepn,umkippenn,umkippne,umkkippen,umkpipen,ummkippen
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Misspelling Variants of "umkippen"
Frequency rank: #46,347 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter U in our German index: