unglücklich
[ˈʊnˌɡlʏklɪç]
The verdict
“unglücklich” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,476. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,476
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - traurig, deprimiert, bedrückt
Corpus desk
Index DE-unglucklich · unglücklich · German
unglücklich · rank #6,476 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,476
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Thüringer
Nearest frequency peer: Thüringer (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „unglücklich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Staatsanwalt
Staatsanwalt
93,528 corpus weight
- Teilnehmern
Teilnehmern
93,527 corpus weight
- Thüringer
Thüringer
93,526 corpus weight
- unglücklich
unglücklich
93,525 corpus weight
- Unterkunft
Unterkunft
93,524 corpus weight
- Venedig
Venedig
93,523 corpus weight
What this shows „unglücklich“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unglücklich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊnˌɡlʏklɪç] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #6,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „unglücklich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around unglücklich (IPA [ˈʊnˌɡlʏklɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,476 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for unglücklich, with forms such as "nuglücklich", "ugnlücklich", and "ungglücklich". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "unglückliche", "unglücklichen", "unglücklicher", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is unglücklich, spelled U-N-G-L-Ü-C-K-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1traurig, deprimiert, bedrückt
- 2ungünstig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unglücklich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie ist ganz unglücklich, weil ihre Katze eingegangen ist.
Die Unternehmung nahm eine unglückliche Wendung.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuglücklich
- ugnlücklich
- ungglücklich
- unglcüklich
- ungllücklich
- unglüccklich
- unglückilch
- unglückklich
- unglücklcih
- unglücklicch
- unglücklichh
- unglücklihc
- unglückllich
- unglüclkich
- unglükclich
- ungülcklich
- unlgücklich
- unnglücklich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of unglücklich - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "unglücklich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).