unbekannt
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,077
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
unbekannt is anGermanadj. It means: von wenigen gekannt, nicht im Allgemeinwissen vorhanden Pronounced [ˈʊnbəkant]. It ranks #4,077 in German word frequency. Often confused with unerkannt and unbekannte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unbekannt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈʊnbəkant] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for unbekannt is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊnbəkant]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,077 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for unbekannt, with forms such as "nubekannt", "ubnekannt", and "unbbekannt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "unerkannt", "unbekannte", "Unbekannten", 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 unbekannt, spelled U-N-B-E-K-A-N-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1von wenigen gekannt, nicht im Allgemeinwissen vorhanden
- 2so, dass man etwas nicht weiß, kein Wissen, keine Informationen über etwas hat
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nubekannt,ubnekannt,unbbekannt,unbeaknnt,unbekanntt,unbekant,unbekantn,unbekkannt,unbeknant,unbkeannt,unebkannt,unnbekannt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for unbekannt
Misspelling Variants of "unbekannt"
Frequency rank: #4,077 in German
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