Sänfte
[ˈzɛnftə]
The verdict
“Sänfte” is an uncommon German word, ranked #76,249 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #76,249
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Beförderungsmittel für Personen, bei dem sich ein Gestell auf Stangen befindet, die von Menschen oder Lasttieren getragen werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sänfte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛnftə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sänfte” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sänfte is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzɛnftə]. Corpus data places it at rank #76,249 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Beförderungsmittel für Personen, bei dem sich ein Gestell auf Stangen befindet, die von Menschen oder Lasttieren getragen werden".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Sänfte, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Sänfte, spelled S-Ä-N-F-T-E.
Definition
- 1Beförderungsmittel für Personen, bei dem sich ein Gestell auf Stangen befindet, die von Menschen oder Lasttieren getragen werden
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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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Using “Sänfte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-Ä-N-F-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈzɛnftə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.