Gangstern
[ˈɡɛŋstɐn]
The verdict
“Gangstern” is uncommon German (frequency #79,178 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,178
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Plural des Substantivs Gangster
Corpus desk
Index DE-gangstern · Gangstern · German
Gangstern · rank #79,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,178
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Galeeren
Nearest frequency peer: Galeeren (-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 „Gangstern“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fünftklässl…
Fünftklässler
20,827 corpus weight
- gai
gai
20,826 corpus weight
- Galeeren
Galeeren
20,824 corpus weight
- Gangstern
Gangstern
20,823 corpus weight
- Gastritis
Gastritis
20,820 corpus weight
- Gaue
Gaue
20,819 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gangstern“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gangstern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡɛŋstɐn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gangstern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gangstern is uncommon German at frequency #79,178 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡɛŋstɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dativ Plural des Substantivs Gangster".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gangstern, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Gangstern, spelled G-A-N-G-S-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural des Substantivs Gangster
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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