gale
[ɡeɪl]
The verdict
“gale” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,829) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,829
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sturm
Corpus desk
Index DE-gale · gale · German
gale · rank #41,829 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,829
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH fünft
Nearest frequency peer: fünft (-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 „gale“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Fässern
Fässern
58,176 corpus weight
- Führungsrol…
Führungsrolle
58,175 corpus weight
- Fünfjährige
Fünfjährige
58,174 corpus weight
- fünft
fünft
58,173 corpus weight
- gale
gale
58,172 corpus weight
- Gastes
Gastes
58,170 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „gale“ 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 | gale |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡeɪl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „gale“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gale is neighbouring look-alikes ("ge", "gar", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɡeɪl]. Frequency #41,829 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Sturm".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for gale, with forms such as "agle", "gael", and "ggale". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ge", "gar", "Gas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is gale, spelled G-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Sturm
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agle
- gael
- ggale
- glae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gale - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).