Gabelung
[ˈɡaːbəlʊŋ]
The verdict
“Gabelung” is uncommon German (frequency #74,587 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,587
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stelle, an der sich etwas (meist in zwei Teile) gabelt
Corpus desk
Index DE-gabelung · Gabelung · German
Gabelung · rank #74,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,587
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Fürstentümer
Nearest frequency peer: Fürstentümer (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Gabelung”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Führerschei…
Führerscheins
25,417 corpus weight
- Fürstentümer
Fürstentümer
25,415 corpus weight
- Gabelung
Gabelung
25,414 corpus weight
- gallische
gallische
25,413 corpus weight
- Galloway
Galloway
25,412 corpus weight
- Gartencenter
Gartencenter
25,410 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Gabelung” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gabelung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡaːbəlʊŋ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Gabelung” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Gabelung is uncommon German at frequency #74,587 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡaːbəlʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Gabelung, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Gabelung, spelled G-A-B-E-L-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Stelle, an der sich etwas (meist in zwei Teile) gabelt
- 2das Sichgabeln
Synonyms
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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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