unglaubwürdig

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for unglaubwürdig is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊnɡlaʊ̯pˌvʏʁdɪç]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,095 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "so geartet, dass man die Sache oder einer Person nicht glauben kann".

Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for unglaubwürdig, with forms such as "nuglaubwürdig", "ugnlaubwürdig", and "ungalubwürdig". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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 unglaubwürdig, spelled U-N-G-L-A-U-B-W-Ü-R-D-I-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.