Docht
[dɔxt]
The verdict
“Docht” is uncommon German (frequency #71,236 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,236
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schnur aus Baumwolle, welche durch die Kapillarwirkung dafür sorgt, dass in Kerzen und Petroleumlampen Brennstoff hochsteigt und am oberen Ende brennt
Corpus desk
Index DE-docht · Docht · German
Docht · rank #71,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,236
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dogen
Nearest frequency peer: Dogen (+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 „Docht“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Direktverbi…
Direktverbindung
28,769 corpus weight
- dive
dive
28,768 corpus weight
- Docht
Docht
28,765 corpus weight
- Dogen
Dogen
28,764 corpus weight
- dogmatischen
dogmatischen
28,763 corpus weight
- dorsale
dorsale
28,761 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Docht“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Docht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dɔxt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Docht“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Docht is uncommon German at frequency #71,236 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [dɔxt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schnur aus Baumwolle, welche durch die Kapillarwirkung dafür sorgt, dass in Kerzen und Petroleumlampen Brennstoff hochsteigt und am oberen Ende brennt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Docht, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Docht, spelled D-O-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1Schnur aus Baumwolle, welche durch die Kapillarwirkung dafür sorgt, dass in Kerzen und Petroleumlampen Brennstoff hochsteigt und am oberen Ende brennt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Docht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Kerze lässt sich nur schwer anzünden, weil der Docht so weit abgebrannt ist.
„Soeben knallten zwei Schüsse, deren einer den brennenden Docht vom Lichte weg – und der zweite das Licht durchschoß.“
Antonyms
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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