Gäste
[ˈɡɛstə]
The verdict
“Gäste” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,597
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Gast
Corpus desk
Index DE-gaste · Gäste · German
Gäste · rank #1,597 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,597
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gründe
Nearest frequency peer: Gründe (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Gäste”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Garten
Garten
98,407 corpus weight
- Gegner
Gegner
98,406 corpus weight
- Gründe
Gründe
98,405 corpus weight
- Gäste
Gäste
98,404 corpus weight
- Heimat
Heimat
98,403 corpus weight
- Industrie
Industrie
98,402 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Gäste” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gäste |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡɛstə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gäste” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Gäste (IPA [ˈɡɛstə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,597 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gäste, with forms such as "ggäste", "gsäte", and "gäset". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gute", "gate", "geste", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Gäste, spelled G-Ä-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Gast
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Gast
- 3Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Gast
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggäste
- gsäte
- gäset
- gässte
- gästte
- gätse
- ägste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gäste - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gäste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
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.