unter der Woche
[ˈʊntɐ deːɐ̯ ˈvɔxə]
The verdict
“unter der Woche” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - von Montag bis Freitag
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unter der Woche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʊntɐ deːɐ̯ ˈvɔxə] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “unter der Woche” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for unter der Woche is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊntɐ deːɐ̯ ˈvɔxə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "von Montag bis Freitag".
No misspelling variants are generated for unter der Woche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 unter der Woche, spelled U-N-T-E-R- -D-E-R- -W-O-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1von Montag bis Freitag
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is U-N-T-E-R- -D-E-R- -W-O-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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