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An example use of onkel in a speech by a native speaker of standard german:
“… landwirt weder noch mein onkel hat gott …”
the word onkel occurs in german on average 22.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.