Wollust
[ˈvɔlʊst]
The verdict
“Wollust” is an uncommon German word, ranked #66,884 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #66,884
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gefühl der Lust und der sexuellen Begierde, das besonders bei sexueller Erregung und der Befriedigung sexueller Wünsche entsteht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wollust |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɔlʊst] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wollust” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wollust is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɔlʊst]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,884 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Wollust, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 Wollust, spelled W-O-L-L-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1Gefühl der Lust und der sexuellen Begierde, das besonders bei sexueller Erregung und der Befriedigung sexueller Wünsche entsteht
- 2Wonne, Vergnügen
- 3Freude, Vergnügen, Ergötzung, Fröhlichkeit
- 4Ausschweifungen, Laster
- 5Lebensweise, die durch Lasterhaftigkeit, Unsittlichkeit und das Sündigen gekennzeichnet ist
- 6Reiz, Schönheit, Süße
- 7Geschlechtsverkehr, Sex
- 8wollüstiger Mensch
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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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Using “Wollust”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-O-L-L-U-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈvɔlʊst] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.