unnütze
[ˈʊnˌnʏt͡sə]
The verdict
“unnütze” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,325. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,325
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs unnütz
Corpus desk
Index DE-unnutze · unnütze · German
unnütze · rank #49,325 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,325
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Ungunsten
Nearest frequency peer: Ungunsten (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “unnütze”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Umsätzen
Umsätzen
50,680 corpus weight
- unbefugte
unbefugte
50,678 corpus weight
- Ungunsten
Ungunsten
50,677 corpus weight
- unnütze
unnütze
50,676 corpus weight
- unpolitisch
unpolitisch
50,675 corpus weight
- Unteroffizi…
Unteroffiziere
50,672 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “unnütze” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | unnütze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊnˌnʏt͡sə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “unnütze” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around unnütze (IPA [ˈʊnˌnʏt͡sə]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,325 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for unnütze, with forms such as "nunütze", "unntüze", and "unnütez". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "unnütz", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is unnütze, spelled U-N-N-Ü-T-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs unnütz
- 2Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs unnütz
- 3Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs unnütz
- 4Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs unnütz
- 5Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs unnütz
- 6Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs unnütz
- 7Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs unnütz
- 8Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs unnütz
- 9Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs unnütz
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nunütze
- unntüze
- unnütez
- unnüttze
- unnützze
- unnüzte
- unüntze
- unütze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of unnütze - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "unnütze", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "unnütz". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #49,325 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "U" letter cohort. U–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.