banquet
[bæŋkwɪt]
The verdict
“banquet” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bankett, Festessen
Corpus desk
Index DE-banquet · banquet · German
banquet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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 | banquet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bæŋkwɪt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „banquet“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
banquet is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [bæŋkwɪt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bankett, Festessen".
Zero misspellings are on record for banquet in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is banquet, spelled B-A-N-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Bankett, Festessen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how banquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They new neighbours have a big banquet tonight.
"Confusingly, a banquet, the grandest of all meals, was usually held in the evening. The majority of meals analyzed here will be banquets, in the broader sense of the term, but many will be smaller suppers and even ordinary meals when authors describe them."
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.