wunschlos
[ˈvʊnʃloːs]
The verdict
“wunschlos” is uncommon German (frequency #95,155 among 38,697 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,155
- frequency rank, German
- 38,697
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - nichts bedürfend
Corpus desk
Index DE-wunschlos · wunschlos · German
wunschlos · rank #95,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,155
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 38,697
- PHOTO-FINISH Wulst
Nearest frequency peer: Wulst (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “wunschlos”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wohnheimen
Wohnheimen
4,851 corpus weight
- Wulst
Wulst
4,847 corpus weight
- wunschlos
wunschlos
4,846 corpus weight
- Wurzelwerk
Wurzelwerk
4,845 corpus weight
- Wutausbrüche
Wutausbrüche
4,844 corpus weight
- Wärmeerzeug…
Wärmeerzeugung
4,842 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wunschlos” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wunschlos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈvʊnʃloːs] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wunschlos” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wunschlos is uncommon German at frequency #95,155 among 38,697 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈvʊnʃloːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nichts bedürfend".
wunschlos doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is wunschlos, spelled W-U-N-S-C-H-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1nichts bedürfend
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "wunschlos", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.