Lesart
German, noun/ˈleːsˌaːrt/
Lesart is spelled L-E-S-A-R-T (6 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written German, the 29,531st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lesart is a German feminine noun meaning “reading, way of deciphering a text that is ambiguous (e.g. because it lacks diacritics, uses nonstandard spelling, is written in an obscure…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Auslegung, Sinngebung, Deutung, Fassung, Variante, Version einer Textstelle”.
What does Lesart mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininereading, way of deciphering a text that is ambiguous (e.g. because it lacks diacritics, uses nonstandard spelling, is written in an obscure language or illegible hand etc.)
Konsonantenschriften lassen oft mehrere Lesarten zu.
- 2
femininetextual variant, version (any of the ways in which a phrase has been recorded in different manuscripts of the same text)
Von allen Lesarten scheint mir diese die ursprüngliche zu sein.
- 3
femininereading, interpretation
Nach meiner Lesart meint der Autor hier etwas ganz anderes.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Auslegung, Sinngebung, Deutung, Fassung, Variante, Version einer Textstelle 2. eine von mehreren Bedeutungen eines Wortes
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 Lesart
- Lesarten plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Lesart?
- /ˈleːsˌaːrt/
- [ˈleːsˌʔaː(ɐ̯)t]
- [ˈleːsˌʔaːɐ̯t]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Lesart in German?
Lesart appears 1.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).