Unterlegener
German, noun
Unterlegener is spelled U-N-T-E-R-L-E-G-E-N-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 179,801st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unterlegener is a German masculine noun meaning “underdog, loser” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, unterlegener is a different word: “comparative degree of unterlegen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemand, der einem Gegner oder Konkurrenten unterlegen ist”.
What does Unterlegener mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineunderdog, loser
adjective
- 1
comparative degree of unterlegen
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. jemand, der einem Gegner oder Konkurrenten unterlegen ist
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 Unterlegener
- der Unterlegene definite nominative
- Unterlegenen genitive
- Unterlegene plural
- die Unterlegenen definite plural
- Unterlegenem dative singular strong
- des Unterlegenen genitive singular
- der Unterlegenen genitive plural
- dem Unterlegenen dative singular
- den Unterlegenen dative plural
- ein Unterlegener nominative singular
- keine Unterlegenen nominative plural
- eines Unterlegenen genitive singular
- keiner Unterlegenen genitive plural
- einem Unterlegenen dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Unterlegener in German?
Unterlegener appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).