unterzeichnen

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for unterzeichnen is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʊntɐˈt͡saɪ̯çnən]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,719 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine Unterschrift geben, zum Beispiel als Zustimmung zu einem Vertrag".

Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for unterzeichnen, with forms such as "nuterzeichnen", "unetrzeichnen", and "unnterzeichnen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "unterzeichnet", "Unterzeichner", "Unterzeichnung", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 unterzeichnen, spelled U-N-T-E-R-Z-E-I-C-H-N-E-N.