Wessis
[ˈvɛsis]
The verdict
“Wessis” is uncommon German (frequency #89,819 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,819
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Wessi
Corpus desk
Index DE-wessis · Wessis · German
Wessis · rank #89,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,819
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wernau
Nearest frequency peer: Wernau (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Wessis”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Weltsprache
Weltsprache
10,188 corpus weight
- Wernau
Wernau
10,184 corpus weight
- Wessis
Wessis
10,182 corpus weight
- wetterfest
wetterfest
10,180 corpus weight
- wicker
wicker
10,178 corpus weight
- widerspenst…
widerspenstige
10,177 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Wessis” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wessis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛsis] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wessis” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Wessis is uncommon German at frequency #89,819 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvɛsis]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Wessis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Wessis, spelled W-E-S-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Wessi
- 2Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Wessi
- 3Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Wessi
- 4Dativ Plural des Substantivs Wessi
- 5Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Wessi
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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