Gastarbeiter
[ˈɡastʔaʁˌbaɪ̯tɐ]
The verdict
“Gastarbeiter” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #25,559. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,559
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die legal (für eine begrenzte Zeit) in einem für ihn fremden Land arbeitet
Corpus desk
Index DE-gastarbeiter · Gastarbeiter · German
Gastarbeiter · rank #25,559 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,559
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Galgen
Nearest frequency peer: Galgen (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Gastarbeiter“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- funktional
funktional
74,445 corpus weight
- Galaxien
Galaxien
74,444 corpus weight
- Galgen
Galgen
74,443 corpus weight
- Gastarbeiter
Gastarbeiter
74,442 corpus weight
- Gaumen
Gaumen
74,441 corpus weight
- geblendet
geblendet
74,440 corpus weight
What this shows „Gastarbeiter“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gastarbeiter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡastʔaʁˌbaɪ̯tɐ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #25,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gastarbeiter“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around Gastarbeiter (IPA [ˈɡastʔaʁˌbaɪ̯tɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,559 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person, die legal (für eine begrenzte Zeit) in einem für ihn fremden Land arbeitet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gastarbeiter, with forms such as "agstarbeiter", "gasatrbeiter", and "gasstarbeiter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Gastarbeiter, spelled G-A-S-T-A-R-B-E-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die legal (für eine begrenzte Zeit) in einem für ihn fremden Land arbeitet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gastarbeiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nach dem Ende der DDR mussten die Gastarbeiter aus Vietnam und Mosambik in ihre Heimatländer zurückkehren.
„Die Gastarbeiter der 1960er Jahre kamen alle freiwillig ins Land.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agstarbeiter
- gasatrbeiter
- gasstarbeiter
- gastabreiter
- gastarbbeiter
- gastarbeietr
- gastarbeiterr
- gastarbeitre
- gastarbeitter
- gastarbetier
- gastarbieter
- gastarebiter
- gastarrbeiter
- gastrabeiter
- gasttarbeiter
- gatsarbeiter
- ggastarbeiter
- gsatarbeiter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gastarbeiter - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gastarbeiter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).