waagrecht

[ˈvaːkʁɛçt]

/[ˈvaːkʁɛçt]/ adj

The verdict

“waagrecht” is an uncommon German word, ranked #87,259 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.

#87,259
frequency rank, German
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - parallel zu einer flachen Erdoberfläche; im rechten Winkel zur Lotlinie

Key facts for waagrecht
PropertyValue
Headwordwaagrecht
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈvaːkʁɛçt]
Letters9
Frequency rank#87,259
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “waagrecht” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). waagrecht lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for waagrecht is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvaːkʁɛçt]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,259 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "parallel zu einer flachen Erdoberfläche; im rechten Winkel zur Lotlinie".

waagrecht has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 waagrecht, spelled W-A-A-G-R-E-C-H-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    parallel zu einer flachen Erdoberfläche; im rechten Winkel zur Lotlinie

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "waagrecht"?
"waagrecht" is spelled W-A-A-G-R-E-C-H-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈvaːkʁɛçt].
What does "waagrecht" mean?
As an adjective, "waagrecht" means: parallel zu einer flachen Erdoberfläche; im rechten Winkel zur Lotlinie
How do you pronounce "waagrecht"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "waagrecht" is [ˈvaːkʁɛçt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "waagrecht" come from?
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Using “waagrecht”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is W-A-A-G-R-E-C-H-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈvaːkʁɛçt] (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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list