unhappiness
[ʌnˈhæpɪnəs]
The verdict
“unhappiness” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Traurigkeit, das Elend
Corpus desk
Index DE-unhappiness · unhappiness · German
unhappiness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unhappiness |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʌnˈhæpɪnəs] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „unhappiness“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
unhappiness is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʌnˈhæpɪnəs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Traurigkeit, das Elend".
Zero misspellings are on record for unhappiness in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 unhappiness, spelled U-N-H-A-P-P-I-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1die Traurigkeit, das Elend
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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.