unmöglich
[ˈʊnmøːklɪç]
The verdict
“unmöglich” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,829. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,829
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nicht machbar, undurchführbar
Corpus desk
Index DE-unmoglich · unmöglich · German
unmöglich · rank #1,829 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,829
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Stiftung
Nearest frequency peer: Stiftung (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „unmöglich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- standen
standen
98,175 corpus weight
- Stiftung
Stiftung
98,173 corpus weight
- unmöglich
unmöglich
98,172 corpus weight
- verdammt
verdammt
98,171 corpus weight
- vergangenen
vergangenen
98,170 corpus weight
- vollständig
vollständig
98,169 corpus weight
What this shows „unmöglich“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unmöglich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊnmøːklɪç] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „unmöglich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around unmöglich (IPA [ˈʊnmøːklɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,829 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for unmöglich, with forms such as "numöglich", "umnöglich", and "unmgölich". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "unmögliche", "unmöglichen", "unmögliches", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is unmöglich, spelled U-N-M-Ö-G-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1nicht machbar, undurchführbar
- 2unduldbar, unentschuldbar, nicht akzeptabel, unpassend
- 3unwahrscheinlich, nicht vorstellbar, seltsam, merkwürdig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unmöglich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es ist unmöglich, diese schwierige Aufgabe in so kurzer Zeit zu lösen.
„Die Bank zu steuern, das scheint fast unmöglich. […] Sein Job [als Chef] wird aber noch unmöglicher, wenn eine weitere Bank dazukommt.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- numöglich
- umnöglich
- unmgölich
- unmmöglich
- unmögglich
- unmögilch
- unmöglcih
- unmöglicch
- unmöglichh
- unmöglihc
- unmögllich
- unmölgich
- unnmöglich
- unömglich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of unmöglich - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "unmöglich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).