gamba
[ˈɡamba]
The verdict
“gamba” is uncommon German (frequency #81,567 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,567
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Bein: Extremität zum Laufen und Stehen bei Tieren und Menschen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gamba · gamba · German
gamba · rank #81,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,567
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Galway
Nearest frequency peer: Galway (-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 “gamba”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- fürsorgliche
fürsorgliche
18,436 corpus weight
- Galway
Galway
18,435 corpus weight
- gamba
gamba
18,434 corpus weight
- garnieren
garnieren
18,433 corpus weight
- Gartenparty
Gartenparty
18,432 corpus weight
- Gasgrill
Gasgrill
18,431 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “gamba” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamba |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡamba] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “gamba” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
gamba is uncommon German at frequency #81,567 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡamba]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das Bein: Extremität zum Laufen und Stehen bei Tieren und Menschen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gamba in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is gamba, spelled G-A-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1das Bein: Extremität zum Laufen und Stehen bei Tieren und Menschen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gamba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La gamba è una regione anatomica del corpo umano, che costituisce un segmento dell’arto inferiore.
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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