Zeichensatz
German, noun/ˈt͡saɪ̯çənzat͡s/
Zeichensatz is spelled Z-E-I-C-H-E-N-S-A-T-Z (11 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 111,951st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zeichensatz is a German masculine noun meaning “charset, character set, character encoding, character map, codepage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gesamtheit der Schrift- oder sonstiger Zeichen eines bestimmten Typs”.
What does Zeichensatz mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecharset, character set, character encoding, character map, codepage
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gesamtheit der Schrift- oder sonstiger Zeichen eines bestimmten Typs
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 Zeichensatz
- Zeichensatzes genitive
- Zeichensätze plural
- Zeichensatze dative singular
- Zeichensätzen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Zeichensatz?
- /ˈt͡saɪ̯çənzat͡s/
- [ˈt͡saɪ̯çn̩ˌzat͡s]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Zeichensatz in German?
Zeichensatz appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).