Wednesday
[ˈwɛnzdeɪ]
The verdict
“Wednesday” is uncommon German (frequency #59,330 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,330
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in den USA der vierte Wochentag; in Europa und anderen Staaten mit der Norm ISO 8601 der dritte Wochentag; Mittwoch
Corpus desk
Index DE-wednesday · Wednesday · German
Wednesday · rank #59,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,330
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wasserscheide
Nearest frequency peer: Wasserscheide (-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 „Wednesday“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- warning
warning
40,674 corpus weight
- Wasserglas
Wasserglas
40,673 corpus weight
- Wasserschei…
Wasserscheide
40,672 corpus weight
- Wednesday
Wednesday
40,671 corpus weight
- weggefahren
weggefahren
40,670 corpus weight
- weinende
weinende
40,669 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Wednesday“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wednesday |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈwɛnzdeɪ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wednesday“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wednesday is uncommon German at frequency #59,330 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈwɛnzdeɪ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in den USA der vierte Wochentag; in Europa und anderen Staaten mit der Norm ISO 8601 der dritte Wochentag; Mittwoch".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Wednesday, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Wednesday, spelled W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1in den USA der vierte Wochentag; in Europa und anderen Staaten mit der Norm ISO 8601 der dritte Wochentag; Mittwoch
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Wednesday appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Our socials are every first and third Wednesday in the month from 8 pm.
Synonyms
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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