Wildente
[ˈvɪltˌʔɛntə]
The verdict
“Wildente” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in freier Wildbahn lebende und auch meist geborene Ente
Corpus desk
Index DE-wildente · Wildente · German
Wildente · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | Wildente |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɪltˌʔɛntə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wildente“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wildente is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvɪltˌʔɛntə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in freier Wildbahn lebende und auch meist geborene Ente".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Wildente 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, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Wildente, spelled W-I-L-D-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1in freier Wildbahn lebende und auch meist geborene Ente
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wildente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In Wildenten erfolgt die Vermehrung von Influenza-A-Viren in Lunge und Darmtrakt, und die Viren werden in hohen Konzentrationen über die Kloake ausgeschieden.“
„Überall watschelten Wildenten umher, Pelikane, Wasserhühner, Rotschnäbel, Phildeons mit ihren Pinselzungen und ein paar Leierschwänze mit schillernden Schwanzfedern.“
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.