Kaskade
[kasˈkaːdə]
The verdict
“Kaskade” is uncommon German (frequency #76,953 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,953
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - stufenförmiger Wasserfall
Corpus desk
Index DE-kaskade · Kaskade · German
Kaskade · rank #76,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,953
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kardiologe
Nearest frequency peer: Kardiologe (-2 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 „Kaskade“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kandahar
Kandahar
23,052 corpus weight
- kappt
kappt
23,051 corpus weight
- Kardiologe
Kardiologe
23,050 corpus weight
- Kaskade
Kaskade
23,048 corpus weight
- keimt
keimt
23,045 corpus weight
- Kernfrage
Kernfrage
23,044 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kaskade“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kaskade |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kasˈkaːdə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kaskade“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kaskade is uncommon German at frequency #76,953 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kasˈkaːdə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kaskade, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Kaskade, spelled K-A-S-K-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1stufenförmiger Wasserfall
- 2Gerät zur automatischen Ausgabe von Getränken
- 3gewagter Sprung
- 4Grundmuster mit einer ungeraden Anzahl von Objekten
- 5in Stufen mit rasch zunehmender Teilchenzahl ablaufender Prozess
- 6Abfolge von Reaktionen oder Einzelschritten in einem Stoffwechselweg
- 7Anordnung hintereinander geschalteter Reaktionsgefäße
- 8Reihenschaltung gleich gearteter Teile in der Elektrotechnik
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kaskade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die beiden Kaskaden im Lietzenseepark wurden 1912-13 von Erwin Barth und Heinrich Seeling geschaffen: die Große Kaskade am südlichen Ende des Parks an der Dernburgstraße und die Kleine Kaskade mit Rundbecken und Fontäne im nördlichen Teil an der Wundtstraße.“
„Der versierte Kajakfahrer wird eins mit seinem Boot und kann sich in dieser neuen Einheit den Strömungen, Wirbeln und Kaskaden des Wildwassers stellen.“
Synonyms
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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