gängiges
[ˈɡɛŋɪɡəs]
The verdict
“gängiges” is uncommon German (frequency #63,393 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,393
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gängig
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gängiges |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɡɛŋɪɡəs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gängiges” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gängiges is uncommon German at frequency #63,393 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɡɛŋɪɡəs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for gängiges in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is gängiges, spelled G-Ä-N-G-I-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gängig
- 2Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gängig
- 3Nominativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gängig
- 4Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gängig
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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Using “gängiges”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-Ä-N-G-I-G-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.