Wulst
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#95,154
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Wulst is aGermannoun. It means: längliche, rundliche Verdickung, Schwellung, Ansammlung oder Geschwulst Pronounced [vʊlst].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wulst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vʊlst] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wulst is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vʊlst]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,154 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Wulst in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Wulst, spelled W-U-L-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1längliche, rundliche Verdickung, Schwellung, Ansammlung oder Geschwulst
- 2dicker, länglicher, wurstartiger Gegenstand, der durch Zusammenrollen eines weichen Stoffes entsteht
- 3zwischen Helm und Helmzier eingesetzter Kranz
- 4wie [1] geformtes, verzierendes Element mit kreisförmigem Querschnitt bei Säulen, Gesimsen oder Ähnlichem
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #95,154 in German
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