unorthodox
[ˈʊnʔɔʁtoˌdɔks]
The verdict
“unorthodox” is uncommon German (frequency #97,868 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,868
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf ungewohnte, überraschende Art; keinen starren Regeln folgend
Corpus desk
Index DE-unorthodox · unorthodox · German
unorthodox · rank #97,868 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,868
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH universitas
Nearest frequency peer: universitas (-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 „unorthodox“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- unfreundlic…
unfreundlicher
2,137 corpus weight
- ungeduldiger
ungeduldiger
2,136 corpus weight
- universitas
universitas
2,134 corpus weight
- unorthodox
unorthodox
2,133 corpus weight
- unscharfen
unscharfen
2,132 corpus weight
- unterdurchs…
unterdurchschnittlichen
2,131 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „unorthodox“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unorthodox |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊnʔɔʁtoˌdɔks] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „unorthodox“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
unorthodox is uncommon German at frequency #97,868 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʊnʔɔʁtoˌdɔks]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "auf ungewohnte, überraschende Art; keinen starren Regeln folgend".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for unorthodox, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 unorthodox, spelled U-N-O-R-T-H-O-D-O-X.
Definition
- 1auf ungewohnte, überraschende Art; keinen starren Regeln folgend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how unorthodox appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Beide brillierten in Rio mit spielerischer Raffinesse und unorthodoxem Spiel.“
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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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