Wissenschaft
German, noun/ˈvɪsənʃaft/
Wissenschaft is spelled W-I-S-S-E-N-S-C-H-A-F-T (12 letters) and appears 48 times per million words in written German, the 1,771st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wissenschaft is a German feminine noun meaning “science (a branch of knowledge or academic discipline dealing with a systematic body of facts or truths)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Bereich und Disziplin systematischen, theoriebegründenden/theoriebegründeten Wissens”.
What does Wissenschaft mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininescience (a branch of knowledge or academic discipline dealing with a systematic body of facts or truths)
- 2
femininescience, the sciences taken as a whole
- 3
feminineacademia, scholarship (collective discipline of learning acquired through a scientific or scholarly method; totality of knowledge derived from scientific inquiry)
- 4
feminineacademia, academic community
- 5
feminineobsoleteknowledge, cognizance
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bereich und Disziplin systematischen, theoriebegründenden/theoriebegründeten Wissens 2. Gesamtheit dessen, was jemand weiß
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Wissenschaft
- Wissenschaften plural
- Wißenschaft alternative nonstandard
- Wi. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Wissenschaft?
- /ˈvɪsənʃaft/
- [ˈvɪsn̩ʃaft]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Wissenschaft
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Wissenschaft in German?
Wissenschaft appears 48 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).