chest
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The verdict
“chest” is uncommon German (frequency #83,803 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,803
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kiste, Kasten, Behälter, Sarg
Corpus desk
Index DE-chest · chest · German
chest · rank #83,803 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,803
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Chefsessel
Nearest frequency peer: Chefsessel (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „chest“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- charakterli…
charakterliche
16,201 corpus weight
- Charakterst…
Charakterstärke
16,200 corpus weight
- Chefsessel
Chefsessel
16,199 corpus weight
- chest
chest
16,198 corpus weight
- Christkindl…
Christkindlmarkt
16,197 corpus weight
- chronisches
chronisches
16,196 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „chest“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chest |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „chest“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
chest is uncommon German at frequency #83,803 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
chest doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is chest, spelled C-H-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Kiste, Kasten, Behälter, Sarg
- 2Brustkasten, Brust
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The jaguar is very like the leopard, but is considerably larger, and may be easily distinguished from that animal by the appearance of the spots, which are larger than those of the leopard, and are composed of a black spot surrounded by several others. There is also a black streak across the chest."
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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