wohnungslos

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for wohnungslos is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvoːnʊŋsˌloːs]. 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: "ohne festen Wohnsitz; jedoch nicht unbedingt auf der Straße lebend (= obdachlos), sondern auch zeitweise bei Freunden / Verwandten unterkommend oder in befristet nutzbaren Unterkünften, die die Kom...".

No misspelling variants are generated for wohnungslos 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 wohnungslos, spelled W-O-H-N-U-N-G-S-L-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.