Wendigo
[ˈwɛndiɡo]
The verdict
“Wendigo” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wesen aus der Mythologie der Anishinabe
Corpus desk
Index DE-wendigo · Wendigo · German
Wendigo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wendigo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈwɛndiɡo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wendigo“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wendigo is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈwɛndiɡo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wesen aus der Mythologie der Anishinabe".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Wendigo, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 Wendigo, spelled W-E-N-D-I-G-O.
Definition
- 1Wesen aus der Mythologie der Anishinabe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wendigo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ich las über ihre Häscher: die Tiefen Wesen in den Meeren und anderen Gewässern der Erde, über die Dholen, die schrecklichen Schneemenschen Tibets und der verborgenen Hochebene von Leng, über die Shantaks, die auf das Geheiß des Windwanderers aus Kadath in der Kalten Wüste herbeiflogen, über den Wendigo, den Vetter Ithaquas, über ihre Rivalitäten, durch…
„Es gab Hinweise auf das ›schwarze Zimbabwe‹, und das von ›Unkraut überwucherte Y'ha-nthlei‹, bis hin zum Hochplateau von Leng irgendwo in Asien, weiter auf gewisse uralte Ruinen in Yucatan und Peru, eine Äonen alte Stadt der ›Abkömmlinge Yoggoths‹ in der Antarktis - ausgerechnet! - und auf die Mythen vom Wendigo oder Windläufer, die ein Teil der Mytholog…
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.