ungelegen
\ˈʊnɡəˌleːɡn̩\
The verdict
“ungelegen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inopportun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ungelegen · ungelegen · French
ungelegen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | ungelegen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈʊnɡəˌleːɡn̩\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
ungelegen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈʊnɡəˌleːɡn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inopportun.".
ungelegen has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ungelegen, spelled U-N-G-E-L-E-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Inopportun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ungelegen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donald Trumps aggressive Zollpolitik kommt der chinesischen Führung ungelegen. Doch das größte wirtschaftliche Problem Chinas liegt ganz woanders.
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.