Unterlass
German, noun
Unterlass is spelled U-N-T-E-R-L-A-S-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 56,036th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unterlass is a German masculine noun meaning “Only used in: ohne Unterlass” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, unterlass is a different word: “singular imperative of unterlassen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Pause, in der das, was vor sich geht, nicht weiter geschieht”.
What does Unterlass mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineOnly used in: ohne Unterlass
verb
- 1
singular imperative of unterlassen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pause, in der das, was vor sich geht, nicht weiter geschieht
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Unterlass
- Unterlaß obsolete
- Unterlässe nominative plural
- Unterlasses genitive singular
- Unterlässen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Unterlass in German?
Unterlass appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).