wahnhaft
[ˈvaːnhaft]
The verdict
“wahnhaft” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - von einer fixen Idee/irren Vorstellung (= einem Wahn), welche nichts mit der Realität, den Fakten oder rationalen Argumenten zu tun hat, geleitet
Corpus desk
Index DE-wahnhaft · wahnhaft · German
wahnhaft · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | wahnhaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈvaːnhaft] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “wahnhaft” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
wahnhaft is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈvaːnhaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "von einer fixen Idee/irren Vorstellung (= einem Wahn), welche nichts mit der Realität, den Fakten oder rationalen Argumenten zu tun hat, geleitet".
wahnhaft doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is wahnhaft, spelled W-A-H-N-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1von einer fixen Idee/irren Vorstellung (= einem Wahn), welche nichts mit der Realität, den Fakten oder rationalen Argumenten zu tun hat, geleitet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wahnhaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wo verläuft die Grenze zwischen wahnhaftem und normalem Denken?“
„Als sich bei Gödel die wahnhafte Idee entwickelt, man versuche, ihn zu vergiften, muss sie alle Speisen kosten, bevor er davon etwas zu sich nimmt.“
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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.
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