Unterwerfung
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,458
in German word usage
Misspellings
19
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Unterwerfung is aGermannoun. It means: die Handlung, sich jemandem zu ergeben; Akzeptanz einer (Zwangs-)Herrschaft oder Macht Pronounced [ˌʊntɐˈvɛʁfʊŋ]. Often confused with unterwerfen and Unterweisung.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Unterwerfung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌʊntɐˈvɛʁfʊŋ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #21,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Unterwerfung is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʊntɐˈvɛʁfʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,458 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for Unterwerfung, with forms such as "nuterwerfung", "unetrwerfung", and "unnterwerfung". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "unterwerfen", "Unterweisung", 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 Unterwerfung, spelled U-N-T-E-R-W-E-R-F-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Handlung, sich jemandem zu ergeben; Akzeptanz einer (Zwangs-)Herrschaft oder Macht
- 2gewaltsame Aneignung eines Herrschaftsgebiets
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nuterwerfung,unetrwerfung,unnterwerfung,unterewrfung,unterrwerfung,unterwefrung,unterwerffung,unterwerfnug,unterwerfugn,unterwerfungg,unterwerfunng,unterwerrfung,unterwerufng,unterwrefung,unterwwerfung,untewrerfung,untrewerfung,untterwerfung,utnerwerfung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Unterwerfung
Misspelling Variants of "Unterwerfung"
Frequency rank: #21,458 in German
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