unbequem
\ˈʊnbəˌkveːm\
The verdict
“unbequem” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inconfortable, incommode, inconvenant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-unbequem · unbequem · French
unbequem · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unbequem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈʊnbəˌkveːm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
unbequem is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈʊnbəˌkveːm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for unbequem, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is unbequem, spelled U-N-B-E-Q-U-E-M.
Definition
- 1Inconfortable, incommode, inconvenant.
- 2Incommode, qui exprime souvent son désaccord et pose des questions difficiles et provoquantes, caractérise une personne.
- 3Difficile, inconfortable, incommode, inquiétant, caractérise un fait ou une question.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unbequem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donald Trump und seine Partei müssen, auch wenn es schwerfällt, eine unbequeme neue Erkenntnis an sich heranlassen: (...)
Chinas Parteiführung verabschiedete ihren unbequemen Mitstreiter 2019 mit einem Staatsbegräbnis.
Synonyms
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.