desiderat
German, adjective
desiderat is spelled D-E-S-I-D-E-R-A-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written German, the 222,832nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desiderat is a German adjective meaning “urgently needed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Desiderat is a different word: “desideratum”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “dringend nötig”.
What does desiderat mean in English?
adjective
- 1
urgently needed
noun
- 1
neuterdesideratum
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. gewünschtes Objekt oder abstraktes Ding, wie ein fehlendes Buch in Bibliotheken, fehlende Sammelobjekte, Forschungsgegenstand
adjective: 1. dringend nötig
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 desiderat
- desiderater masculine nominative singular
- desiderate feminine nominative singular
- desiderates neuter nominative singular
- desideraten genitive masculine singular
- desideratem dative masculine singular
- der desiderate definite includes-article masculine
- die desiderate definite feminine includes-article
- das desiderate definite includes-article neuter
- die desideraten definite includes-article nominative
- des desideraten definite genitive includes-article
- der desideraten definite feminine genitive
- dem desideraten dative definite includes-article
- den desideraten dative definite includes-article
- Desideratum variant
- Desiderate nominative plural
- Desiderats genitive singular
- Desiderates genitive singular
- Desideraten dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is desiderat in German?
desiderat appears about once in every 16 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).