Unterernährung
The verdict
“Unterernährung” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #48,579 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #48,579
- frequency rank, German
- 14
- letters
- 22
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: quantitative Mangelernährung, bei der weniger Kalorien eingenommen, als verbraucht werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Unterernährung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊntɐʔɛɐ̯ˌnɛːʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #48,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Unterernährung” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Unterernährung is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊntɐʔɛɐ̯ˌnɛːʁʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #48,579 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "quantitative Mangelernährung, bei der weniger Kalorien eingenommen, als verbraucht werden".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for Unterernährung, with forms such as "nuterernährung", "unetrernährung", and "unnterernährung". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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 Unterernährung, spelled U-N-T-E-R-E-R-N-Ä-H-R-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1quantitative Mangelernährung, bei der weniger Kalorien eingenommen, als verbraucht werden
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nuterernährung,unetrernährung,unnterernährung,unteerrnährung,unterenrährung,unterernhärung,unterernnährung,unterernähhrung,unterernährnug,unterernährrung,unterernährugn,unterernährungg,unterernährunng,unterernähurng,unterernärhung,untererrnährung,untereränhrung,unterrenährung,unterrernährung,untreernährung,untterernährung,utnerernährung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Unterernährung — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Unterernährung"
Frequency rank: #48,579 in German
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Using “Unterernährung”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is U-N-T-E-R-E-R-N-Ä-H-R-U-N-G — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʊntɐʔɛɐ̯ˌnɛːʁʊŋ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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