Untertasse
[ˈʊntɐˌtasə]
The verdict
“Untertasse” is uncommon German (frequency #82,264 among 30,279 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,264
- frequency rank, German
- 30,279
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - kleiner, flacher Teller, der das Verschmutzen des Tisches oder der Tischdecke durch Kaffee-, Tee- oder Kakaoreste, die an der Tasse haften, verhindern soll
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Untertasse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊntɐˌtasə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Untertasse” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Untertasse is uncommon German at frequency #82,264 among 30,279 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʊntɐˌtasə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kleiner, flacher Teller, der das Verschmutzen des Tisches oder der Tischdecke durch Kaffee-, Tee- oder Kakaoreste, die an der Tasse haften, verhindern soll".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Untertasse, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Untertasse, spelled U-N-T-E-R-T-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1kleiner, flacher Teller, der das Verschmutzen des Tisches oder der Tischdecke durch Kaffee-, Tee- oder Kakaoreste, die an der Tasse haften, verhindern soll
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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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- The one correct German spelling is U-N-T-E-R-T-A-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.