Umpolung
German, noun
Umpolung is spelled U-M-P-O-L-U-N-G (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written German, the 228,970th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Umpolung is a German feminine noun meaning “reversal (especially of polarity)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Umpolung mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininereversal (especially of polarity)
- 2
femininereversion
- 3
femininecommutation
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Umpolung
- Umpolungen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Umpolung?
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Umpolung in German?
Umpolung appears about once in every 17 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).