Wagehals
[ˈvaːɡəˌhals]
The verdict
“Wagehals” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - menschliches Wesen, welches sich durch seine besonders stark ausgeprägte Kühnheit auszeichnet
Corpus desk
Index DE-wagehals · Wagehals · German
Wagehals · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" 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 | Wagehals |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvaːɡəˌhals] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wagehals“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wagehals is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvaːɡəˌhals]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "menschliches Wesen, welches sich durch seine besonders stark ausgeprägte Kühnheit auszeichnet".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Wagehals in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Wagehals, spelled W-A-G-E-H-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1menschliches Wesen, welches sich durch seine besonders stark ausgeprägte Kühnheit auszeichnet
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Wagehals appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die fleißigen Bauern hatten kein Eigentum und konnten vertrieben werden, sobald der Pächter mit der Zahlung im Rückstand blieb oder der Verpächter einen Wagehals fand, der mehr bot.“
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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.