Kompresse
[kɔmˈpʁɛsə]
The verdict
“Kompresse” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - feuchter Umschlag
Corpus desk
Index DE-kompresse · Kompresse · German
Kompresse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kompresse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔmˈpʁɛsə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kompresse“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kompresse is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɔmˈpʁɛsə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kompresse, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Kompresse, spelled K-O-M-P-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1feuchter Umschlag
- 2gefalteter Mull als Unterlage eines Druckverbands
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kompresse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Überschüssige Creme wird von der Hautoberfläche mit einer feuchten Kompresse abgenommen.
„Nach den Kompressen fing ich zu pinseln an, seifte mit Eifer, gab mir sichtlich Mühe.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.