Westentasche
[ˈvɛstn̩ˌtaʃə]
The verdict
“Westentasche” is uncommon German (frequency #81,173 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,173
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - an einer Weste angebrachte, kleine Tasche
Corpus desk
Index DE-westentasche · Westentasche · German
Westentasche · rank #81,173 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,173
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Werdohl
Nearest frequency peer: Werdohl (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Westentasche”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wendezeit
Wendezeit
18,833 corpus weight
- Werbetexter
Werbetexter
18,831 corpus weight
- Werdohl
Werdohl
18,829 corpus weight
- Westentasche
Westentasche
18,828 corpus weight
- Widerworte
Widerworte
18,826 corpus weight
- wiederzuerl…
wiederzuerlangen
18,824 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Westentasche” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Westentasche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛstn̩ˌtaʃə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #81,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Westentasche” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Westentasche is uncommon German at frequency #81,173 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvɛstn̩ˌtaʃə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "an einer Weste angebrachte, kleine Tasche".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Westentasche in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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. The correct German form is Westentasche, spelled W-E-S-T-E-N-T-A-S-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1an einer Weste angebrachte, kleine Tasche
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Westentasche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In seiner Westentasche steckte eine goldene Taschenuhr.
„Und dann geschieht es, daß er, ohne den Blick abzuwenden, in die Westentasche greift und sanft und zärtlich einen Weinpfropfen aus der Tasche nimmt, um ihn verzückt an die Nase zu führen und ein Weilchen fromm daran zu riechen.“
This word in other languages
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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