waist
Letters
5 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
waist is aGermannoun. It means: bei den meisten Wirbeltieren der Körperteil zwischen Brustkorb und Hüfte Pronounced [weɪst].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | waist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [weɪst] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for waist is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [weɪst]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for waist in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is waist, spelled W-A-I-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bei den meisten Wirbeltieren der Körperteil zwischen Brustkorb und Hüfte
- 2bei Insekten die schmalste Stelle des Rumpfes zwischen Thorax und Abdomen
- 3ein Teil der Kleidung, der [1] verdeckt
- 4der mittlere Teil eines Rumpfes eines Schiffes oder eines Flugzeugs
- 5der obere Teil eines Schiffes zwischen dem Achter- und dem Vorderdeck
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