Wollust
[ˈvɔlʊst]
The verdict
“Wollust” is uncommon German (frequency #66,884 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,884
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gefühl der Lust und der sexuellen Begierde, das besonders bei sexueller Erregung und der Befriedigung sexueller Wünsche entsteht
Corpus desk
Index DE-wollust · Wollust · German
Wollust · rank #66,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,884
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wohnräumen
Nearest frequency peer: Wohnräumen (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Wollust“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wirtschafts…
Wirtschaftsrat
33,122 corpus weight
- wohlgefühlt
wohlgefühlt
33,119 corpus weight
- Wohnräumen
Wohnräumen
33,118 corpus weight
- Wollust
Wollust
33,117 corpus weight
- wolves
wolves
33,116 corpus weight
- wuchtig
wuchtig
33,114 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Wollust“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wollust“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wollust is uncommon German at frequency #66,884 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvɔlʊst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wollust appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beim Anblick ihres entblößten Körpers, der von den Laken nur spärlich bedeckt wurde, übermannte ihn eine lang vermisste Wollust.
„Hatte ihn eben noch die Wollust übermannt, so spürte er im nächsten Moment, wie sie verebbte.“
Antonyms
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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