ungeschriebenes Gesetz
[ˌʊnɡəʃʁiːbənəs ɡəˈzɛt͡s]
The verdict
“ungeschriebenes Gesetz” 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
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — nicht schriftlich dokumentierte und fixierte, aber allgemein anerkannte und als verbindlich geltende Regel
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ungeschriebenes Gesetz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌʊnɡəʃʁiːbənəs ɡəˈzɛt͡s] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ungeschriebenes Gesetz” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ungeschriebenes Gesetz is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʊnɡəʃʁiːbənəs ɡəˈzɛt͡s]. 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: "nicht schriftlich dokumentierte und fixierte, aber allgemein anerkannte und als verbindlich geltende Regel".
No misspelling variants are generated for ungeschriebenes Gesetz 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 ungeschriebenes Gesetz, spelled U-N-G-E-S-C-H-R-I-E-B-E-N-E-S- -G-E-S-E-T-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nicht schriftlich dokumentierte und fixierte, aber allgemein anerkannte und als verbindlich geltende Regel
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is U-N-G-E-S-C-H-R-I-E-B-E-N-E-S- -G-E-S-E-T-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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