Wassergehalt
[ˈvasɐɡəˌhalt]
The verdict
“Wassergehalt” is uncommon German (frequency #69,884 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,884
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Menge oder der Anteil an Wasser in einem Ganzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-wassergehalt · Wassergehalt · German
Wassergehalt · rank #69,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,884
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wasserbehälter
Nearest frequency peer: Wasserbehälter (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Wassergehalt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Warenverkehr
Warenverkehr
30,120 corpus weight
- warmherzig
warmherzig
30,119 corpus weight
- Wasserbehäl…
Wasserbehälter
30,118 corpus weight
- Wassergehalt
Wassergehalt
30,117 corpus weight
- Wassermengen
Wassermengen
30,116 corpus weight
- weggerissen
weggerissen
30,114 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Wassergehalt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wassergehalt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvasɐɡəˌhalt] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #69,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wassergehalt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wassergehalt is uncommon German at frequency #69,884 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvasɐɡəˌhalt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Menge oder der Anteil an Wasser in einem Ganzen".
Wassergehalt has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Wassergehalt, spelled W-A-S-S-E-R-G-E-H-A-L-T.
Definition
- 1die Menge oder der Anteil an Wasser in einem Ganzen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wassergehalt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Wassergehalt des Menschen schwankt zwischen siebzig Prozent (stark Untergewichtige) und fünfundvierzig Prozent (stark Übergewichtige), macht also im Normalfall mehr als die Hälfte des Körpergewichts aus.“
„Beim Nadelholz Fichte mit einem Wassergehalt von 15 Prozent beträgt der Heizwert 4,32 Kilowattstunden pro Kilogramm (kWh/kg), beim Laubholz Buche sind es 4,15 kWh/kg.“
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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