Unkraut vergeht nicht
[ˈʊnkʁaʊ̯t fɛɐ̯ˈɡeːt nɪçt]
The verdict
“Unkraut vergeht nicht” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — schlechte Menschen überstehen alles, sie sind nicht kleinzukriegen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Unkraut vergeht nicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʊnkʁaʊ̯t fɛɐ̯ˈɡeːt nɪçt] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Unkraut vergeht nicht” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Unkraut vergeht nicht is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊnkʁaʊ̯t fɛɐ̯ˈɡeːt nɪçt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "schlechte Menschen überstehen alles, sie sind nicht kleinzukriegen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Unkraut vergeht nicht in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 Unkraut vergeht nicht, spelled U-N-K-R-A-U-T- -V-E-R-G-E-H-T- -N-I-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1schlechte Menschen überstehen alles, sie sind nicht kleinzukriegen
Synonyms
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.
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- The one correct German spelling is U-N-K-R-A-U-T- -V-E-R-G-E-H-T- -N-I-C-H-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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