Undine

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Undine is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʊnˈdiːnə]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,609 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ein im Wasser lebender weiblicher Elementargeist mit menschlicher Gestalt. Undine verliert ihre Unsterblichkeit durch Vermählung mit einem irdischen Mann und Geburt eines Kindes von diesem".

No misspelling variants are generated for Undine 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 Undine, spelled U-N-D-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.