Unkel
[ˈʊŋkl̩]
The verdict
“Unkel” is uncommon German (frequency #87,181 among 30,279 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,181
- frequency rank, German
- 30,279
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Stadt in Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-unkel · Unkel · German
Unkel · rank #87,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,181
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 30,279
- PHOTO-FINISH ungesicherte
Nearest frequency peer: ungesicherte (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Unkel”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Unberechenb…
Unberechenbarkeit
12,824 corpus weight
- unerschütte…
unerschütterliche
12,823 corpus weight
- ungesicherte
ungesicherte
12,821 corpus weight
- Unkel
Unkel
12,820 corpus weight
- unkontrolli…
unkontrollierter
12,819 corpus weight
- unrasiert
unrasiert
12,817 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Unkel” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Unkel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊŋkl̩] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Unkel” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Unkel is uncommon German at frequency #87,181 among 30,279 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈʊŋkl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland".
Unkel doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Unkel, spelled U-N-K-E-L.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Unkel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.