Unabhängigkeitskrieg

/[ˈʊnʔaphɛŋɪçkaɪ̯t͡sˌkʁiːk]/ noun

The verdict

“Unabhängigkeitskrieg” is an uncommon German word, ranked #82,249 in German word frequency and used as a noun.

#82,249
frequency rank, German
20
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Krieg, den ein Volk führt, um seine staatliche Unabhängigkeit von einer bis dahin beherrschenden Macht zu erringen

Key facts for Unabhängigkeitskrieg
PropertyValue
HeadwordUnabhängigkeitskrieg
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʊnʔaphɛŋɪçkaɪ̯t͡sˌkʁiːk]
Letters20
Frequency rank#82,249
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Unabhängigkeitskrieg” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Unabhängigkeitskrieg lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Unabhängigkeitskrieg is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊnʔaphɛŋɪçkaɪ̯t͡sˌkʁiːk]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,249 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Krieg, den ein Volk führt, um seine staatliche Unabhängigkeit von einer bis dahin beherrschenden Macht zu erringen".

No misspelling variants are generated for Unabhängigkeitskrieg 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 Unabhängigkeitskrieg, spelled U-N-A-B-H-Ä-N-G-I-G-K-E-I-T-S-K-R-I-E-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Krieg, den ein Volk führt, um seine staatliche Unabhängigkeit von einer bis dahin beherrschenden Macht zu erringen

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Unabhängigkeitskrieg"?
"Unabhängigkeitskrieg" is spelled U-N-A-B-H-Ä-N-G-I-G-K-E-I-T-S-K-R-I-E-G. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʊnʔaphɛŋɪçkaɪ̯t͡sˌkʁiːk].
What does "Unabhängigkeitskrieg" mean?
As a noun, "Unabhängigkeitskrieg" means: Krieg, den ein Volk führt, um seine staatliche Unabhängigkeit von einer bis dahin beherrschenden Macht zu erringen
How do you pronounce "Unabhängigkeitskrieg"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Unabhängigkeitskrieg" is [ˈʊnʔaphɛŋɪçkaɪ̯t͡sˌkʁiːk]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Unabhängigkeitskrieg" come from?
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Using “Unabhängigkeitskrieg”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is U-N-A-B-H-Ä-N-G-I-G-K-E-I-T-S-K-R-I-E-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈʊnʔaphɛŋɪçkaɪ̯t͡sˌkʁiːk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list