Gamepad
[ˈɡɛɪ̯mˌpɛt]
The verdict
“Gamepad” is uncommon German (frequency #75,669 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,669
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Computerzubehör) ein Eingabegerät für Videospiele, das mit beiden Händen gehalten und mit den Daumen (oft auch Fingern) bedient wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-gamepad · Gamepad · German
Gamepad · rank #75,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,669
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH galaktische
Nearest frequency peer: galaktische (-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 „Gamepad“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- fünfköpfige
fünfköpfige
24,335 corpus weight
- Gagen
Gagen
24,334 corpus weight
- galaktische
galaktische
24,333 corpus weight
- Gamepad
Gamepad
24,332 corpus weight
- Gangschaltu…
Gangschaltung
24,331 corpus weight
- Gasmasken
Gasmasken
24,330 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gamepad“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gamepad |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡɛɪ̯mˌpɛt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gamepad“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gamepad is uncommon German at frequency #75,669 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡɛɪ̯mˌpɛt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Computerzubehör) ein Eingabegerät für Videospiele, das mit beiden Händen gehalten und mit den Daumen (oft auch Fingern) bedient wird".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gamepad in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Gamepad, spelled G-A-M-E-P-A-D.
Definition
- 1(Computerzubehör) ein Eingabegerät für Videospiele, das mit beiden Händen gehalten und mit den Daumen (oft auch Fingern) bedient wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gamepad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich suche ein PC Gamepad mit USB Anschluss.
Synonyms
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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