Unterlage
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,384
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
Unterlage is aGermannoun. It means: unter etwas liegender Gegenstand oder Schicht (Schichte) als Schutz, Stärkung oder Höhenausgleich Pronounced [ˈʊntɐˌlaːɡə]. Often confused with untersagt and unterlegt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Unterlage |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊntɐˌlaːɡə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Unterlage is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊntɐˌlaːɡə]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,384 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for Unterlage, with forms such as "nuterlage", "unetrlage", and "unnterlage". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "untersagt", "unterlegt", "Unterlagen", and more, 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 Unterlage, spelled U-N-T-E-R-L-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1unter etwas liegender Gegenstand oder Schicht (Schichte) als Schutz, Stärkung oder Höhenausgleich
- 2Dokumente und sonstige Beweisstücke, die für einen rechtlichen, verwaltungstechnischen oder ähnlichen Vorgang benötigt werden
- 3Grundlage, auf der Edelreiser aufgebracht werden
- 4Beim Wettkampf Position unter dem Gegner
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nuterlage,unetrlage,unnterlage,untelrage,unteralge,unterlaeg,unterlagge,unterlgae,unterllage,unterrlage,untrelage,untterlage,utnerlage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Unterlage
Misspelling Variants of "Unterlage"
Frequency rank: #29,384 in German
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Nearby German words
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