unbeholfen
German, adjective/ˈʊnbəhɔlfən/
unbeholfen is spelled U-N-B-E-H-O-L-F-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 44,523rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unbeholfen is a German adjective meaning “clumsy, awkward, shiftless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit schlechter körperlicher Koordination, mit wenig Geschick”.
What does unbeholfen mean in English?
adjective
- 1
clumsy, awkward, shiftless
adverb
- 1
clumsily, awkwardly
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. mit schlechter körperlicher Koordination, mit wenig Geschick
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of unbeholfen
- unbeholfener masculine nominative singular
- am unbeholfensten superlative
- unbeholfene feminine nominative singular
- unbeholfenes neuter nominative singular
- unbeholfenen genitive masculine singular
- unbeholfenem dative masculine singular
- der unbeholfene definite includes-article masculine
- die unbeholfene definite feminine includes-article
- das unbeholfene definite includes-article neuter
- die unbeholfenen definite includes-article nominative
- des unbeholfenen definite genitive includes-article
- der unbeholfenen definite feminine genitive
- dem unbeholfenen dative definite includes-article
- unbeholfner comparative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce unbeholfen?
- /ˈʊnbəhɔlfən/
- [ˈʊnbəˌhɔlfn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to unbeholfen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is unbeholfen in German?
unbeholfen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).