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
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die legal (für eine begrenzte Zeit) in einem für ihn fremden Land arbeitet
| 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) |
Where “Gastarbeiter” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around Gastarbeiter (IPA [ˈɡastʔaʁˌbaɪ̯tɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,559 among 54,401 “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
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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Using “Gastarbeiter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-A-S-T-A-R-B-E-I-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈɡastʔaʁˌbaɪ̯tɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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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.