Sasquatch
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The verdict
“Sasquatch” 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) - legendenhaftes Wesen mit riesigen Füßen, einer beträchtlichen Größe und starker Fellbehaarung, welches sich in Nordamerika befinden soll
Corpus desk
Index DE-sasquatch · Sasquatch · German
Sasquatch · 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 "S" 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 | Sasquatch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sasquatch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sasquatch is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "legendenhaftes Wesen mit riesigen Füßen, einer beträchtlichen Größe und starker Fellbehaarung, welches sich in Nordamerika befinden soll".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Sasquatch, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Sasquatch, spelled S-A-S-Q-U-A-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1legendenhaftes Wesen mit riesigen Füßen, einer beträchtlichen Größe und starker Fellbehaarung, welches sich in Nordamerika befinden soll
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sasquatch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Im Juli 1884 meldete sogar eine Zeitung in British Columbia, dass ein Sasquatch gefangen genommen und an einen Zirkus verkauft worden sei.“
„Die meisten haben sich gedacht, dass Wölfe oder Wildhunde sie auf dem Gewissen haben. Andere tippen auf ’n Sasquash oder so was in der Art.“
Synonyms
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.