Umweltbewusstsein
The verdict
“Umweltbewusstsein” is an uncommon German word, ranked #57,491 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #57,491
- frequency rank, German
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Aufmerksamkeit für die Wichtigkeit einer intakten natürlichen Umwelt und im Gegensatz dazu vom Menschen verursachte fundamentale Probleme in dieser Umwelt (beispielsweise Artensterben, Erderwärmung)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Umweltbewusstsein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊmvɛltbəˌvʊstzaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #57,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Umweltbewusstsein” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Umweltbewusstsein is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊmvɛltbəˌvʊstzaɪ̯n]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,491 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Umweltbewusstsein 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 Umweltbewusstsein, spelled U-M-W-E-L-T-B-E-W-U-S-S-T-S-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aufmerksamkeit für die Wichtigkeit einer intakten natürlichen Umwelt und im Gegensatz dazu vom Menschen verursachte fundamentale Probleme in dieser Umwelt (beispielsweise Artensterben, Erderwärmung)
- 2individuelles Bemühen, die Umwelt möglichst wenig zu beeinträchtigen (beispielsweise durch Mobilitätsverzicht, Reduzierung des Energieverbrauchs, Müllvermeidung)
Frequency rank: #57,491 in German
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Using “Umweltbewusstsein”
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- The one correct German spelling is U-M-W-E-L-T-B-E-W-U-S-S-T-S-E-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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