Unworts des Jahres
[ˈʊnˌvɔʁt͡s dɛs ˈjaːʁəs]
The verdict
“Unworts des Jahres” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Unwort des Jahres
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Unworts des Jahres |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊnˌvɔʁt͡s dɛs ˈjaːʁəs] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Unworts des Jahres” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Unworts des Jahres is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊnˌvɔʁt͡s 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: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Unwort des Jahres".
No misspelling variants are generated for Unworts 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 Unworts des Jahres, spelled U-N-W-O-R-T-S- -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
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Unwort des Jahres
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is U-N-W-O-R-T-S- -D-E-S- -J-A-H-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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