Gästebuch
[ˈɡɛstəˌbuːx]
The verdict
“Gästebuch” is uncommon German (frequency #57,927 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,927
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Buch, ausgelegt für Besucher eines bestimmten Ortes, mit leeren Seiten, auf denen Kommentare und/oder Namen hinterlassen werden können, zum Beispiel um einem Gastgeber zu danken
Corpus desk
Index DE-gastebuch · Gästebuch · German
Gästebuch · rank #57,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,927
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gunzenhausen
Nearest frequency peer: Gunzenhausen (-3 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 „Gästebuch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Grundschull…
Grundschullehrer
42,079 corpus weight
- GTS
GTS
42,078 corpus weight
- Gunzenhausen
Gunzenhausen
42,077 corpus weight
- Gästebuch
Gästebuch
42,074 corpus weight
- hakte
hakte
42,070 corpus weight
- Halden
Halden
42,069 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gästebuch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gästebuch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡɛstəˌbuːx] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gästebuch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gästebuch is uncommon German at frequency #57,927 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡɛstəˌbuːx]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gästebuch, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Gästebuch, spelled G-Ä-S-T-E-B-U-C-H.
Definition
- 1Buch, ausgelegt für Besucher eines bestimmten Ortes, mit leeren Seiten, auf denen Kommentare und/oder Namen hinterlassen werden können, zum Beispiel um einem Gastgeber zu danken
- 2besondere Form des Hinterlassens von Nachrichten auf Websites, speziell von Kommentaren zur Website oder ihrem Thema
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gästebuch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Haben Sie sich schon ins Gästebuch eingetragen?
„Neben dem Gästebuch liegen die Hefte des Österreichischen Schwarzen Kreuzes, der Kriegsgräberfürsorge, die auf ihrer Website für »Versöhnung über den Gräbern« wirbt.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).