unsinnig
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,752
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
unsinnig is anGermanadj. It means: nicht sinnvoll, mit gesundem Menschenverstand nicht nachvollziehbar Pronounced [ˈʊnˌzɪnɪç]. Often confused with unsinnige and unsinnigen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unsinnig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈʊnˌzɪnɪç] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for unsinnig is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊnˌzɪnɪç]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,752 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for unsinnig, with forms such as "nusinnig", "unisnnig", and "unnsinnig". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "unsinnige", "unsinnigen", "Unsinn", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is unsinnig, spelled U-N-S-I-N-N-I-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nicht sinnvoll, mit gesundem Menschenverstand nicht nachvollziehbar
- 2sehr, übermäßig, übertrieben
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nusinnig,unisnnig,unnsinnig,unsinig,unsining,unsinngi,unsinnigg,unsninig,unssinnig,usninnig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for unsinnig
Misspelling Variants of "unsinnig"
Frequency rank: #23,752 in German
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