Unna
[ˈʊna]
The verdict
“Unna” sits in 17 confusable pairs (corpus #17,749) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,749
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-unna · Unna · German
Unna · rank #17,749 · 2 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,749
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH ungewohnt
Nearest frequency peer: ungewohnt (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Unna“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- typischerwe…
typischerweise
82,255 corpus weight
- UFO
UFO
82,254 corpus weight
- ungewohnt
ungewohnt
82,253 corpus weight
- Unna
Unna
82,252 corpus weight
- Upload
Upload
82,251 corpus weight
- Vampir
Vampir
82,250 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Unna“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Unna |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊna] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Unna“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Unna is neighbouring look-alikes ("uns", "USA", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈʊna]. Frequency #17,749 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for Unna, including "nuna" and "unan". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "uns", "USA", "UNO", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Unna, spelled U-N-N-A.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Unna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unna liegt im Osten des Ruhrgebiets.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuna
- unan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Unna - 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 "Unna", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).