garstig
[ˈɡaʁstɪç]
The verdict
“garstig” is uncommon German (frequency #83,992 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,992
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sehr unfreundlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-garstig · garstig · German
garstig · rank #83,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,992
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Garderoben
Nearest frequency peer: Garderoben (-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 „garstig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Garagentor
Garagentor
16,011 corpus weight
- Garderoben
Garderoben
16,010 corpus weight
- garstig
garstig
16,009 corpus weight
- gasförmigen
gasförmigen
16,008 corpus weight
- Gastarbeite…
Gastarbeitern
16,007 corpus weight
- Gastfamilien
Gastfamilien
16,006 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „garstig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garstig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɡaʁstɪç] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „garstig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
garstig is uncommon German at frequency #83,992 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɡaʁstɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
garstig has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is garstig, spelled G-A-R-S-T-I-G.
Definition
- 1sehr unfreundlich
- 2sehr
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how garstig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sei nicht so garstig zu deiner Schwester!
Man wird alt und merkt's nicht, man wird garstig und glaubt's nicht.
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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