Wams
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#70,982
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Wams is aGermannoun. It means: Kleidungsstück, das die Ritter unter ihrer Rüstung (Harnisch) oder ihrem Lentner trugen und das bis über die Hüften reichte Pronounced [vams].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wams |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vams] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wams is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vams]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,982 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Wams in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Wams, spelled W-A-M-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Kleidungsstück, das die Ritter unter ihrer Rüstung (Harnisch) oder ihrem Lentner trugen und das bis über die Hüften reichte
- 2für die Männerbekleidung in der Zeit des 16.–17. Jahrhunderts charakteristische Jacke, die oftmals wattiert und gesteppt war
- 3(insbesondere zu bestimmten Trachten gehöriges) zumeist hochgeschlossenes, eng anliegendes Kleidungsstück für Männer, das den Oberkörper bis zur Taille bedeckt
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #70,982 in German
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