Warnweste
[ˈvaʁnˌvɛstə]
The verdict
“Warnweste” is uncommon German (frequency #65,870 among 38,697 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,870
- frequency rank, German
- 38,697
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - auffallende Weste, die in Tagesleuchtfarbe gehalten und mit reflektierenden Streifen versehen ist, so dass ihr Träger/ihre Trägerin (vor allem auf Baustellen, im Straßenverkehr) besser sichtbar ist...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Warnweste |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvaʁnˌvɛstə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Warnweste” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Warnweste is uncommon German at frequency #65,870 among 38,697 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvaʁnˌvɛstə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "auffallende Weste, die in Tagesleuchtfarbe gehalten und mit reflektierenden Streifen versehen ist, so dass ihr Träger/ihre Trägerin (vor allem auf Baustellen, im Straßenverkehr) besser sichtbar ist...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Warnweste, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Warnweste, spelled W-A-R-N-W-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1auffallende Weste, die in Tagesleuchtfarbe gehalten und mit reflektierenden Streifen versehen ist, so dass ihr Träger/ihre Trägerin (vor allem auf Baustellen, im Straßenverkehr) besser sichtbar ist und somit nicht übersehen wird
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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.
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- The one correct German spelling is W-A-R-N-W-E-S-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.