unwillkürlich
German, adjective/ˈʊnvɪlˌkyːɐ̯lɪç/
unwillkürlich is spelled U-N-W-I-L-L-K-Ü-R-L-I-C-H (13 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 42,412th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unwillkürlich is a German adjective meaning “spontaneous, instinctive, involuntary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ohne es zu wollen oder beabsichtigt zu haben, unbeabsichtigt”.
What does unwillkürlich mean in English?
adjective
- 1
spontaneous, instinctive, involuntary
adverb
- 1
instinctively
- 2
involuntarily
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. ohne es zu wollen oder beabsichtigt zu haben, unbeabsichtigt
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of unwillkürlich
- unwillkürlicher masculine nominative singular
- am unwillkürlichsten superlative
- unwillkürliche feminine nominative singular
- unwillkürliches neuter nominative singular
- unwillkürlichen genitive masculine singular
- unwillkürlichem dative masculine singular
- der unwillkürliche definite includes-article masculine
- die unwillkürliche definite feminine includes-article
- das unwillkürliche definite includes-article neuter
- die unwillkürlichen definite includes-article nominative
- des unwillkürlichen definite genitive includes-article
- der unwillkürlichen definite feminine genitive
- dem unwillkürlichen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce unwillkürlich?
- /ˈʊnvɪlˌkyːɐ̯lɪç/
- /ʊnvɪlˈkyːɐ̯lɪç/
- [ˈʊnvɪlˌkyːɐ̯lɪç]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to unwillkürlich
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is unwillkürlich in German?
unwillkürlich appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).