unleserlich
[ˈʊnˌleːzɐlɪç]
The verdict
“unleserlich” is uncommon German (frequency #71,960 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,960
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nicht oder schwer zu entziffern
Corpus desk
Index DE-unleserlich · unleserlich · German
unleserlich · rank #71,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,960
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH unkritische
Nearest frequency peer: unkritische (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „unleserlich“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- ungefiltert
ungefiltert
28,044 corpus weight
- ungenutzten
ungenutzten
28,043 corpus weight
- unkritische
unkritische
28,042 corpus weight
- unleserlich
unleserlich
28,041 corpus weight
- unnahbar
unnahbar
28,040 corpus weight
- unpopuläre
unpopuläre
28,039 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „unleserlich“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unleserlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊnˌleːzɐlɪç] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #71,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „unleserlich“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
unleserlich is uncommon German at frequency #71,960 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʊnˌleːzɐlɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nicht oder schwer zu entziffern".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for unleserlich, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is unleserlich, spelled U-N-L-E-S-E-R-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1nicht oder schwer zu entziffern
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how unleserlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Verbraucherzentralen haben Lebensmittel auf beschönigende, widersprüchliche und unleserliche Bezeichnungen untersucht.“
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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