Bedürfnisanstalt
[bəˈdʏʁfnɪsʔanˌʃtalt]
The verdict
“Bedürfnisanstalt” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - öffentliche Toilette
Corpus desk
Index DE-bedurfnisanstalt · Bedürfnisanstalt · German
Bedürfnisanstalt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | Bedürfnisanstalt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈdʏʁfnɪsʔanˌʃtalt] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bedürfnisanstalt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bedürfnisanstalt is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [bəˈdʏʁfnɪsʔanˌʃtalt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "öffentliche Toilette".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Bedürfnisanstalt, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 German form is Bedürfnisanstalt, spelled B-E-D-Ü-R-F-N-I-S-A-N-S-T-A-L-T.
Definition
- 1öffentliche Toilette
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bedürfnisanstalt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bereits in der Antike gab es allgemein zugängliche Bedürfnisanstalten.
„Dass der Streit zwischen Transaktivisten und traditionellen Frauenrechtlerinnen um die politisch korrekte Kennzeichnung von Bedürfnisanstalten in Frankfurt nun sogar in Gewalttätigkeit mündete, macht es nicht leichter, das Thema ernst zu nehmen.“
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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.