wesenhaft
[ˈveːzn̩haft]
The verdict
“wesenhaft” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - den Kern, das Besondere ausmachend
Corpus desk
Index DE-wesenhaft · wesenhaft · German
wesenhaft · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | wesenhaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈveːzn̩haft] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wesenhaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wesenhaft is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈveːzn̩haft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "den Kern, das Besondere ausmachend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wesenhaft, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 wesenhaft, spelled W-E-S-E-N-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1den Kern, das Besondere ausmachend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wesenhaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dem konkreten, existierenden Menschen sind seine wesenhaften Eigenschaften vorgegeben.
„Mit einer früher nicht erreichten verinnerlichten Kraft und zusammengedrängten Kürze gibt er mit der Situation die Stimmung wieder, holt er das eigenste, das wesenhafteste heraus […].“
Antonyms
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.