Depesche
[deˈpɛʃə]
The verdict
“Depesche” is uncommon German (frequency #68,127 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,127
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - besonders schnell übermittelter Text
Corpus desk
Index DE-depesche · Depesche · German
Depesche · rank #68,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,127
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH denial
Nearest frequency peer: denial (-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 „Depesche“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Dealern
Dealern
31,878 corpus weight
- degeneriert…
degenerierten
31,877 corpus weight
- denial
denial
31,875 corpus weight
- Depesche
Depesche
31,874 corpus weight
- deutlichere
deutlichere
31,872 corpus weight
- Diashow
Diashow
31,871 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Depesche“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Depesche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [deˈpɛʃə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Depesche“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Depesche is uncommon German at frequency #68,127 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [deˈpɛʃə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "besonders schnell übermittelter Text".
Depesche has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Depesche, spelled D-E-P-E-S-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1besonders schnell übermittelter Text
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Depesche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein ehemaliger Nordhäuser Schauspieler - durch eine Depesche benachrichtigt - empfing meine Kollegen in München am Bahnhof und hatte schon Zimmer für sie belegt.“
„Als er sein Zelt erreichte, blickte er flüchtig auf die wenigen Depeschen, die sich in seiner Abwesenheit angesammelt hatten.“
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); 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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