umschloss
[ʊmˈʃlɔs]
The verdict
“umschloss” is uncommon German (frequency #83,412 among 30,279 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,412
- frequency rank, German
- 30,279
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs umschließen
Corpus desk
Index DE-umschloss · umschloss · German
umschloss · rank #83,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,412
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 30,279
- PHOTO-FINISH Umschlagplatz
Nearest frequency peer: Umschlagplatz (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “umschloss”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Umformung
Umformung
16,592 corpus weight
- Umgestaltun…
Umgestaltungen
16,591 corpus weight
- Umschlagpla…
Umschlagplatz
16,590 corpus weight
- umschloss
umschloss
16,589 corpus weight
- Umweltstand…
Umweltstandards
16,588 corpus weight
- Umweltvertr…
Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung
16,587 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “umschloss” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umschloss |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʊmˈʃlɔs] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “umschloss” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
umschloss is uncommon German at frequency #83,412 among 30,279 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʊmˈʃlɔs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for umschloss in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is umschloss, spelled U-M-S-C-H-L-O-S-S.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs umschließen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs umschließen
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "umschloss", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.