Unterallgäu
[ˈʊntɐˌʔalɡɔɪ̯]
The verdict
“Unterallgäu” is uncommon German (frequency #53,317 among 30,279 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,317
- frequency rank, German
- 30,279
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Landkreis in Bayern, zum Regierungsbezirk Schwaben gehörig
Corpus desk
Index DE-unterallgau · Unterallgäu · German
Unterallgäu · rank #53,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,317
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 30,279
- PHOTO-FINISH unterbewusst
Nearest frequency peer: unterbewusst (+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 “Unterallgäu”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Unicode
Unicode
46,687 corpus weight
- unkonventio…
unkonventionell
46,686 corpus weight
- Unterallgäu
Unterallgäu
46,684 corpus weight
- unterbewusst
unterbewusst
46,683 corpus weight
- unterlassene
unterlassene
46,682 corpus weight
- Unternehmen…
Unternehmensgeschichte
46,681 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Unterallgäu” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Unterallgäu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊntɐˌʔalɡɔɪ̯] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Unterallgäu” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Unterallgäu is uncommon German at frequency #53,317 among 30,279 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈʊntɐˌʔalɡɔɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Landkreis in Bayern, zum Regierungsbezirk Schwaben gehörig".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Unterallgäu, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Unterallgäu, spelled U-N-T-E-R-A-L-L-G-Ä-U.
Definition
- 1Landkreis in Bayern, zum Regierungsbezirk Schwaben gehörig
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 "Unterallgäu", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.