unmerklich
[ˈʊnmɛʁklɪç]
The verdict
“unmerklich” is uncommon German (frequency #62,018 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,018
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nur schwer zu bemerken/zu spüren/wahrzunehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-unmerklich · unmerklich · German
unmerklich · rank #62,018 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,018
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Unmensch
Nearest frequency peer: Unmensch (-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 „unmerklich“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- unheimlicher
unheimlicher
37,986 corpus weight
- unlautere
unlautere
37,985 corpus weight
- Unmensch
Unmensch
37,984 corpus weight
- unmerklich
unmerklich
37,983 corpus weight
- unpolitische
unpolitische
37,982 corpus weight
- unsportlich
unsportlich
37,981 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „unmerklich“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unmerklich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊnmɛʁklɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „unmerklich“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
unmerklich is uncommon German at frequency #62,018 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʊnmɛʁklɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nur schwer zu bemerken/zu spüren/wahrzunehmen".
No misspelling variants are generated for unmerklich 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 nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is unmerklich, spelled U-N-M-E-R-K-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1nur schwer zu bemerken/zu spüren/wahrzunehmen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unmerklich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Loveth Ekumabor wippt auf ihrem Stuhl fast unmerklich hin und her.“
[Der Dirigent] „Teodor Currentzis bewegt sachte, fast unmerklich die Hände.“
This word in other languages
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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