umspielen
The verdict
“umspielen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: sich locker um etwas herumbewegen, zum Beispiel um etwas schwappen/schwingen/fließen/tänzeln
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umspielen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʊmˈʃpiːlən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “umspielen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for umspielen is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʊmˈʃpiːlən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for umspielen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 umspielen, spelled U-M-S-P-I-E-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich locker um etwas herumbewegen, zum Beispiel um etwas schwappen/schwingen/fließen/tänzeln
- 2einen Gegner umgehen und ohne dieses Hindernis weiter auf sein Ziel zuhalten
- 3in der Mundregion zu erkennen sein
- 4nicht den eigentlichen Hauptton spielen, sondern einen Beiton dazu
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Using “umspielen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is U-M-S-P-I-E-L-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʊmˈʃpiːlən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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