unsanft
[ˈʊnˌzanft]
The verdict
“unsanft” is uncommon German (frequency #54,175 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,175
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gar nicht sanft, sondern heftig, grob
Corpus desk
Index DE-unsanft · unsanft · German
unsanft · rank #54,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,175
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH unsachlich
Nearest frequency peer: unsachlich (-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 „unsanft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Universität…
Universitätsprofessor
45,829 corpus weight
- unklarer
unklarer
45,828 corpus weight
- unsachlich
unsachlich
45,827 corpus weight
- unsanft
unsanft
45,826 corpus weight
- unsichtbarer
unsichtbarer
45,825 corpus weight
- unsäglich
unsäglich
45,824 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „unsanft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unsanft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʊnˌzanft] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „unsanft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
unsanft is uncommon German at frequency #54,175 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʊnˌzanft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gar nicht sanft, sondern heftig, grob".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for unsanft, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is unsanft, spelled U-N-S-A-N-F-T.
Definition
- 1gar nicht sanft, sondern heftig, grob
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how unsanft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du hast mich ja unsanft begrüßt.
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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