Aquavit
German, noun/akvaˈviːt/
Aquavit is spelled A-Q-U-A-V-I-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 174,963rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aquavit is a German masculine noun meaning “liquor flavoured with spices, especially caraway; aquavit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “farbloser, schwach aromatisierter Branntwein, zum Teil auch mit Kümmel oder anderen Gewürzen versetzt”.
What does Aquavit mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineliquor flavoured with spices, especially caraway; aquavit
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. farbloser, schwach aromatisierter Branntwein, zum Teil auch mit Kümmel oder anderen Gewürzen versetzt
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Aquavit
- Aquavits genitive
- Aquavite error-unknown-tag plural
- Aquaviten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Aquavit?
- /akvaˈviːt/
- /akvaˈvɪt/
- [akvaˈviːt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Aquavit in German?
Aquavit appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).