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unglückselig

German, adjective[ˈʊnɡlʏkˌzeːlɪç]

unglückselig is spelled U-N-G-L-Ü-C-K-S-E-L-I-G (12 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written German, the 362,108th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unglückselig is a German adjective meaning “unfortunate, hapless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einer negativen oder unangenehmen Wirkung behaftet”.

What does unglückselig mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    unfortunate, hapless

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. mit einer negativen oder unangenehmen Wirkung behaftet

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of unglückselig

  • unglückseliger masculine nominative singular
  • am unglückseligsten superlative
  • unglückselige feminine nominative singular
  • unglückseliges neuter nominative singular
  • unglückseligen genitive masculine singular
  • unglückseligem dative masculine singular
  • der unglückselige definite includes-article masculine
  • die unglückselige definite feminine includes-article
  • das unglückselige definite includes-article neuter
  • die unglückseligen definite includes-article nominative
  • des unglückseligen definite genitive includes-article
  • der unglückseligen definite feminine genitive
  • dem unglückseligen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce unglückselig?

  • [ˈʊnɡlʏkˌzeːlɪç]
  • [ˈʊnɡlʏkˌzeːlɪk]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to unglückselig

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is unglückselig in German?

unglückselig appears about once in every 37 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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