unmodern
[ˈʊnmoˌdɛʁn]
The verdict
“unmodern” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nicht mehr dem neuesten Trend entsprechend, nicht mehr aktuell, nicht mehr auf dem neuesten Stand
Corpus desk
Index DE-unmodern · unmodern · German
unmodern · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | unmodern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊnmoˌdɛʁn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „unmodern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
unmodern is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʊnmoˌdɛʁn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nicht mehr dem neuesten Trend entsprechend, nicht mehr aktuell, nicht mehr auf dem neuesten Stand".
unmodern doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 unmodern, spelled U-N-M-O-D-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1nicht mehr dem neuesten Trend entsprechend, nicht mehr aktuell, nicht mehr auf dem neuesten Stand
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unmodern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sie trägt eine unmoderne Frisur, so war man in den 60ern frisiert.“
„Der in den 80ern gern getragene Cord ist immer noch unmodern, dagegen sind Blümchenmuster und schreiende Farben längst wieder angesagt.“
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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.