unethisch
[ˈʊnˌʔeːtɪʃ]
The verdict
“unethisch” is uncommon German (frequency #83,420 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,420
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nicht der Ethik und Moral entsprechend
Corpus desk
Index DE-unethisch · unethisch · German
unethisch · rank #83,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,420
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH unehelich
Nearest frequency peer: unehelich (-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 „unethisch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- unbedarft
unbedarft
16,584 corpus weight
- unbenutzbar
unbenutzbar
16,583 corpus weight
- unehelich
unehelich
16,582 corpus weight
- unethisch
unethisch
16,581 corpus weight
- ungeheuerli…
ungeheuerliche
16,580 corpus weight
- ungeplante
ungeplante
16,579 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „unethisch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unethisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊnˌʔeːtɪʃ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „unethisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
unethisch is uncommon German at frequency #83,420 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʊnˌʔeːtɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nicht der Ethik und Moral entsprechend".
Zero misspellings are on record for unethisch in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is unethisch, spelled U-N-E-T-H-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1nicht der Ethik und Moral entsprechend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how unethisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Es sei zwar unethisch, das Recht auf Leben eines potentiellen Kindes an dessen Geschlecht festzumachen. Es sei aber auch nicht möglich, Menschen, die so etwas unbedingt wollten, das Recht auf Freizügigkeit zu nehmen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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