Sextant
German, noun[zɛksˈtant]
Sextant is spelled S-E-X-T-A-N-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 184,742nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sextant is a German masculine noun meaning “sextant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “optisches Messinstrument zur Messung von Winkeln anhand von fixierten Punkten”.
What does Sextant mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesextant
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. optisches Messinstrument zur Messung von Winkeln anhand von fixierten Punkten 2. Sternbild in der Nähe des Himmelsäquators
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 Sextant
- Sextanten genitive
- Sixtant alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Sextant?
- [zɛksˈtant]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Sextant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Sextant in German?
Sextant appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).