Unterwachtmeister

/[ˈʊntɐˌvaxtmaɪ̯stɐ]/ noun

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17 characters

Language

German

word origin

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Unterwachtmeister is aGermannoun. It means: zweitniedrigster Unteroffiziersdienstgrad bei Kavallerie und Artillerie, befindlich zwischen dem Unteroffizier und dem Wachtmeister (in der NVA nur bis 1972, dann Unterfeldwebel, keine Kavallerie) Pronounced [ˈʊntɐˌvaxtmaɪ̯stɐ].

Key facts for Unterwachtmeister
PropertyValue
HeadwordUnterwachtmeister
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʊntɐˌvaxtmaɪ̯stɐ]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Unterwachtmeister is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Unterwachtmeister is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊntɐˌvaxtmaɪ̯stɐ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Unterwachtmeister 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 Unterwachtmeister, spelled U-N-T-E-R-W-A-C-H-T-M-E-I-S-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    zweitniedrigster Unteroffiziersdienstgrad bei Kavallerie und Artillerie, befindlich zwischen dem Unteroffizier und dem Wachtmeister (in der NVA nur bis 1972, dann Unterfeldwebel, keine Kavallerie)
  2. 2
    Unteroffizier der Kavallerie oder Artillerie mit dem Range eines Unterwachtmeisters
  3. 3
    Polizei-Unterwachtmeister (Deutsches Reich), Unterwachtmeister der VP (DDR)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Unterwachtmeister"?
"Unterwachtmeister" is spelled U-N-T-E-R-W-A-C-H-T-M-E-I-S-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʊntɐˌvaxtmaɪ̯stɐ].
What does "Unterwachtmeister" mean?
As a noun, "Unterwachtmeister" means: zweitniedrigster Unteroffiziersdienstgrad bei Kavallerie und Artillerie, befindlich zwischen dem Unteroffizier und dem Wachtmeister (in der NVA nur bis 1972, dann Unterfeldwebel, keine Kavallerie)
How do you pronounce "Unterwachtmeister"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Unterwachtmeister" is [ˈʊntɐˌvaxtmaɪ̯stɐ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Unterwachtmeister" come from?
"Unterwachtmeister" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.