Unze
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,803
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Unze is aGermannoun. It means: Gewichtseinheit von etwa 30 Gramm Pronounced [ˈʊnt͡sə]. Often confused with Uwe and Ute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Unze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊnt͡sə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #47,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Unze is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊnt͡sə]. Corpus data places it at rank #47,803 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Unze, with forms such as "nuze", "unez", and "unnze". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Uwe", "Ute", "use", and more, 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 Unze, spelled U-N-Z-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gewichtseinheit von etwa 30 Gramm
- 2Gewichtseinheit für Edelmetalle von einem Zwölftel eines englischen Apothekerpfundes 31.1 Gramm
- 3Gewichtseinheit von einem Sechzehntel eines englischen Handelspfundes 28.35 Gramm
- 4die Raubkatze Jaguar
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nuze,unez,unnze,unzze,uzne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Unze
Misspelling Variants of "Unze"
Frequency rank: #47,803 in German
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Nearby German words
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