unterminieren
Letters
13 characters
Frequency Rank
#84,716
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
unterminieren is aGermanverb. It means: Hohlräume und Stollen unterhalb eines Bauwerks anlegen (Festung, Stadtmauer etc.) zu dessen Zerstörung etwa durch eine anschließende Sprengung Pronounced [ˌʊntɐmiˈniːʁən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unterminieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌʊntɐmiˈniːʁən] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #84,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for unterminieren is 13 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʊntɐmiˈniːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #84,716 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for unterminieren in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 unterminieren, spelled U-N-T-E-R-M-I-N-I-E-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hohlräume und Stollen unterhalb eines Bauwerks anlegen (Festung, Stadtmauer etc.) zu dessen Zerstörung etwa durch eine anschließende Sprengung
- 2schaffen (durch Personen) oder bewirken (durch Dinge, Umstände) von jederlei Hohlräumen unter Gebäudekomplexen, die diesen die Standfestigkeit nehmen
- 3etwas solide Bestehendes (Vertrauen, Ansehen, eine Position, …) oder ein Unterfangen langsam und unmerklich untergraben und zerstören
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #84,716 in German
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