Gag
[ɡɛk]
The verdict
“Gag” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,806) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,806
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - komische, lustige Einlage
Corpus desk
Index DE-gag · Gag · German
Gag · rank #14,806 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,806
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH frühestens
Nearest frequency peer: frühestens (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Gag“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- four
four
85,198 corpus weight
- Freundlichk…
Freundlichkeit
85,197 corpus weight
- frühestens
frühestens
85,196 corpus weight
- Gag
Gag
85,195 corpus weight
- gefüttert
gefüttert
85,193 corpus weight
- Gegenseite
Gegenseite
85,192 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Gag“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gag |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡɛk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Gag“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Gag is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "ge", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɡɛk]. Frequency #14,806 among 5,117 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Gag, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "ge", "GG", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gag, spelled G-A-G.
Definition
- 1komische, lustige Einlage
- 2Pointe eines Witzes oder einer Darbietung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Um unseren Film lustig zu machen, müssen wir viele gute Gags einbauen.
Er vergeigte auch diesen Gag.
This word in other languages
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).