Undank ist der Welten Lohn
[ˈʊnˌdaŋk ɪst deːɐ̯ ˈvɛltn̩ loːn]
The verdict
“Undank ist der Welten Lohn” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Man darf von der Welt keinen Dank erwarten; fehlende Dankbarkeit für erbrachte Leistungen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Undank ist der Welten Lohn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʊnˌdaŋk ɪst deːɐ̯ ˈvɛltn̩ loːn] |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Undank ist der Welten Lohn” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Undank ist der Welten Lohn is 26 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊnˌdaŋk ɪst deːɐ̯ ˈvɛltn̩ loːn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Man darf von der Welt keinen Dank erwarten; fehlende Dankbarkeit für erbrachte Leistungen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Undank ist der Welten Lohn 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 Undank ist der Welten Lohn, spelled U-N-D-A-N-K- -I-S-T- -D-E-R- -W-E-L-T-E-N- -L-O-H-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Man darf von der Welt keinen Dank erwarten; fehlende Dankbarkeit für erbrachte Leistungen
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Using “Undank ist der Welten Lohn”
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- The one correct German spelling is U-N-D-A-N-K- -I-S-T- -D-E-R- -W-E-L-T-E-N- -L-O-H-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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