unbefugt
[ˈʊnbəˌfuːkt]
The verdict
“unbefugt” is uncommon German (frequency #59,264 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,264
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - keine Befugnis, kein Recht, keine Bevollmächtigung zu etwas besitzend
Corpus desk
Index DE-unbefugt · unbefugt · German
unbefugt · rank #59,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,264
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Umwelttechnik
Nearest frequency peer: Umwelttechnik (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „unbefugt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- umgedeutet
umgedeutet
40,740 corpus weight
- umkommen
umkommen
40,739 corpus weight
- Umwelttechn…
Umwelttechnik
40,738 corpus weight
- unbefugt
unbefugt
40,737 corpus weight
- unbehandelt
unbehandelt
40,736 corpus weight
- unbewaffnete
unbewaffnete
40,735 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „unbefugt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unbefugt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊnbəˌfuːkt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „unbefugt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
unbefugt is uncommon German at frequency #59,264 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʊnbəˌfuːkt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "keine Befugnis, kein Recht, keine Bevollmächtigung zu etwas besitzend".
Zero misspellings are on record for unbefugt in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is unbefugt, spelled U-N-B-E-F-U-G-T.
Definition
- 1keine Befugnis, kein Recht, keine Bevollmächtigung zu etwas besitzend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how unbefugt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Paragraf 36 des Waffengesetzes heißt es nämlich: "Wer Waffen oder Munition besitzt, hat die erforderliche Vorkehrungen zu treffen, um zu verhindern, dass diese Gegenstände abhanden kommen oder Dritte sie unbefugt an sich nehmen."
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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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