Travestie
[tʁavɛsˈtiː]
The verdict
“Travestie” is uncommon German (frequency #85,952 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,952
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - komisch-satirische, literarische Gattung; Nachahmung eines Werks durch die Darstellung des ernsten Inhalts in einem verzerrenden, übertreibenden oder verspottenden, komischen Gewand; Beibehaltung d...
Corpus desk
Index DE-travestie · Travestie · German
Travestie · rank #85,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,952
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Transferperio…
Nearest frequency peer: Transferperiode (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Travestie“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- trains
trains
14,051 corpus weight
- Transferper…
Transferperiode
14,050 corpus weight
- Travestie
Travestie
14,049 corpus weight
- treibend
treibend
14,048 corpus weight
- Trennwände
Trennwände
14,047 corpus weight
- Trimester
Trimester
14,046 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Travestie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Travestie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʁavɛsˈtiː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Travestie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Travestie is uncommon German at frequency #85,952 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [tʁavɛsˈtiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Travestie, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Travestie, spelled T-R-A-V-E-S-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1komisch-satirische, literarische Gattung; Nachahmung eines Werks durch die Darstellung des ernsten Inhalts in einem verzerrenden, übertreibenden oder verspottenden, komischen Gewand; Beibehaltung des Inhalts, jedoch Verwendung einer anderen, nicht dazu passenden Form
- 2; Gesamtheit dessen, was mit der Travestieshow, der weiblichen Kostümierung von Männern zusammenhängt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Travestie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn? Goethe, Mignon als Rap vorgetragen, ist ein Beispiel für eine Travestie.
Der Film Feiwel, der Mauswanderer ist eine Travestie: eine Maus erlebt die Probleme als Auswanderer.
Synonyms
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); 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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).