gähnende

[ˈɡɛːnəndə]

/[ˈɡɛːnəndə]/ adj

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The verdict

“gähnende” is uncommon German (frequency #73,575 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,575
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gähnend

Corpus desk

Index DE-gahnende · gähnende · German

gähnende · rank #73,575 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,575
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH Gönnern

Nearest frequency peer: Gönnern (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „gähnende“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gähnende“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for gähnende
PropertyValue
Headwordgähnende
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈɡɛːnəndə]
Letters8
Frequency rank#73,575
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „gähnende“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.gähnendefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Gönnern“ (#73,576), „Gundermann“ (#73,572), „Haaransatz“ (#73,578). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „gähnende“ bei #73,575. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

gähnende is uncommon German at frequency #73,575 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɡɛːnəndə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gähnende, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is gähnende, spelled G-Ä-H-N-E-N-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gähnend
  2. 2
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gähnend
  3. 3
    Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gähnend
  4. 4
    Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gähnend
  5. 5
    Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gähnend
  6. 6
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gähnend
  7. 7
    Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gähnend
  8. 8
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gähnend
  9. 9
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gähnend

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gähnende"?
"gähnende" is spelled G-Ä-H-N-E-N-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɡɛːnəndə].
What does "gähnende" mean?
As an adjective, "gähnende" means: Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gähnend
How do you pronounce "gähnende"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gähnende" is [ˈɡɛːnəndə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gähnende", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

haltlose#73,585Glasdach#73,550hiesiger#73,605Gemische#73,533

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list