ungehalten
[ˈʊnɡəˌhaltn̩]
The verdict
“ungehalten” is uncommon German (frequency #59,268 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,268
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - seinem Unwillen nachgebend; wütend
Corpus desk
Index DE-ungehalten · ungehalten · German
ungehalten · rank #59,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,268
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH unbeweglich
Nearest frequency peer: unbeweglich (-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 „ungehalten“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- unbehandelt
unbehandelt
40,736 corpus weight
- unbewaffnete
unbewaffnete
40,735 corpus weight
- unbeweglich
unbeweglich
40,734 corpus weight
- ungehalten
ungehalten
40,733 corpus weight
- universale
universale
40,732 corpus weight
- unlösbare
unlösbare
40,731 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ungehalten“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ungehalten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊnɡəˌhaltn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ungehalten“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ungehalten is uncommon German at frequency #59,268 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʊnɡəˌhaltn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ungehalten, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 ungehalten, spelled U-N-G-E-H-A-L-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1seinem Unwillen nachgebend; wütend
- 2nicht gehalten, nicht vorgetragen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ungehalten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Mann war sehr ungehalten bezüglich der Verhaltensweise des Verkäufers und hat ihm das entsprechend zum Ausdruck gebracht.
„Wenn es eine offizielle Liste gäbe, wer auf Call-Center- Anrufe am ungehaltensten reagiert, dann stünde Sachsen-Anhalt auf Platz 2 und schlecht gelaunte Berliner wären auf Platz 1.“
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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