weiße Nacht
[ˌvaɪ̯sə ˈnaxt]
The verdict
“weiße Nacht” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - dämmrige oder helle Nacht, in der die Sonne nur kurzzeitig untergeht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | weiße Nacht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌvaɪ̯sə ˈnaxt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “weiße Nacht” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for weiße Nacht is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌvaɪ̯sə ˈnaxt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "dämmrige oder helle Nacht, in der die Sonne nur kurzzeitig untergeht".
No misspelling variants are generated for weiße Nacht 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 weiße Nacht, spelled W-E-I-S-S-E- -N-A-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dämmrige oder helle Nacht, in der die Sonne nur kurzzeitig untergeht
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “weiße Nacht”
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- The one correct German spelling is W-E-I-S-S-E- -N-A-C-H-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌvaɪ̯sə ˈnaxt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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