untertauchen
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,076
in German word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
untertauchen is aGermanverb. It means: jemanden oder etwas unter die Wasseroberfläche drücken Pronounced [ˈʊntɐˌtaʊ̯xn̩]. Often confused with untersuchen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | untertauchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʊntɐˌtaʊ̯xn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #36,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for untertauchen is 12 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊntɐˌtaʊ̯xn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,076 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for untertauchen, with forms such as "nutertauchen", "unetrtauchen", and "unntertauchen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "untersuchen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 untertauchen, spelled U-N-T-E-R-T-A-U-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemanden oder etwas unter die Wasseroberfläche drücken
- 2unter die Wasseroberfläche tauchen/sinken
- 3sich vor der Öffentlichkeit versteckt halten, unerkannt leben
- 4sich den Blicken entziehen, verschwinden
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nutertauchen,unetrtauchen,unntertauchen,unteratuchen,unterrtauchen,untertacuhen,untertaucchen,untertaucehn,untertauchenn,untertauchhen,untertauchne,untertauhcen,unterttauchen,untertuachen,untetrauchen,untretauchen,unttertauchen,utnertauchen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for untertauchen
Misspelling Variants of "untertauchen"
Frequency rank: #36,076 in German
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