una
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,411
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
una is aGermannoun. It means: Dativ Singular des Substantivs un Pronounced [uˈnɑ]. Often confused with us and up.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | una |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [uˈnɑ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for una is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uˈnɑ]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,411 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dativ Singular des Substantivs un".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for una in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "up", "UV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 una, spelled U-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dativ Singular des Substantivs un
Frequency rank: #18,411 in German
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "una"?
What does "una" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "una"?
How do you pronounce "una"?
What language does "una" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter U in our German index: