Wüste
German, noun
Wüste is spelled W-Ü-S-T-E (5 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,473rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wüste is a German feminine noun meaning “desert” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, wüste is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gebiet, in dem wegen enormer Trockenheit und Hitze oder Kälte nur schwer oder kein Leben möglich ist”.
What does Wüste mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedesert
- 2
femininewilderness, waste, wasteland
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gebiet, in dem wegen enormer Trockenheit und Hitze oder Kälte nur schwer oder kein Leben möglich ist 2. Gebiet, das verlassen wurde, von Zerstörung geprägt ist oder sehr monoton oder einseitig ist
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 Wüste
- Wüsten plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Wüste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Wüste in German?
Wüste appears 13 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).