Unwort des Jahres
[ˈʊnˌvɔʁt dɛs ˈjaːʁəs]
The verdict
“Unwort des Jahres” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - einmal im Jahr von einem Gremium ausgewähltes Wort, das in dem betreffenden Jahr in gesellschaftspolitischem Zusammenhang besonders unangenehm aufgefallen ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Unwort des Jahres |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʊnˌvɔʁt dɛs ˈjaːʁəs] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Unwort des Jahres” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Unwort des Jahres is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊnˌvɔʁt dɛs ˈjaːʁəs]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "einmal im Jahr von einem Gremium ausgewähltes Wort, das in dem betreffenden Jahr in gesellschaftspolitischem Zusammenhang besonders unangenehm aufgefallen ist".
No misspelling variants are generated for Unwort des Jahres in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 Unwort des Jahres, spelled U-N-W-O-R-T- -D-E-S- -J-A-H-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einmal im Jahr von einem Gremium ausgewähltes Wort, das in dem betreffenden Jahr in gesellschaftspolitischem Zusammenhang besonders unangenehm aufgefallen ist
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- The one correct German spelling is U-N-W-O-R-T- -D-E-S- -J-A-H-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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