untersucht
[ʊntɐˈzuːxt]
The verdict
“untersucht” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #3,000 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #3,000
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - analysiert oder erforscht worden; unter die Lupe genommen
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | untersucht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʊntɐˈzuːxt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “untersucht” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for untersucht is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʊntɐˈzuːxt]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,000 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "analysiert oder erforscht worden; unter die Lupe genommen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for untersucht, with forms such as "nutersucht", "unetrsucht", and "unntersucht". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "untersuchte", "untersuchten", "Unterricht", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is untersucht, spelled U-N-T-E-R-S-U-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1analysiert oder erforscht worden; unter die Lupe genommen
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nutersucht,unetrsucht,unntersucht,unterrsucht,unterscuht,unterssucht,untersuccht,untersuchht,untersuchtt,untersucth,untersuhct,unteruscht,untesrucht,untresucht,unttersucht,utnersucht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of untersucht - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “untersucht”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is U-N-T-E-R-S-U-C-H-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʊntɐˈzuːxt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “untersuchte” - see the side-by-side comparison. untersucht vs untersuchte
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.