Sehnsucht
\ˈzeːn.ˌzʊχt\
The verdict
“Sehnsucht” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nostalgie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sehnsucht · Sehnsucht · French
Sehnsucht · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sehnsucht |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈzeːn.ˌzʊχt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Sehnsucht is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈzeːn.ˌzʊχt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Sehnsucht doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 French form is Sehnsucht, spelled S-E-H-N-S-U-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1Nostalgie.
- 2Désir.
- 3Languissement, langueur.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.