Kaffeesatzlesen
German, noun
Kaffeesatzlesen is spelled K-A-F-F-E-E-S-A-T-Z-L-E-S-E-N (15 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written German, the 488,905th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kaffeesatzlesen is a German neuter noun meaning “tasseography; coffee ground reading; tea leaf reading (predicting the future by reading the grounds left in a cup, especially of coffee)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Kaffeesatzlesen mean in English?
noun
- 1
neutertasseography; coffee ground reading; tea leaf reading (predicting the future by reading the grounds left in a cup, especially of coffee)
- 2
neuterpointless speculation or prediction about future events
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Kaffeesatzlesen
- Kaffeesatzlesens genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Kaffeesatzlesen in German?
Kaffeesatzlesen appears about once in every 63 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).