Gastfamilie
[ɡastfaˌmiːli̯ə]
The verdict
“Gastfamilie” is uncommon German (frequency #54,546 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,546
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - „Familie, die einen meist ortsfremden Menschen (zum Beispiel Austauschschüler oder Au-pair) freiwillig für einen bestimmten Zeitraum im Rahmen einer Veranstaltung aufnimmt“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gastfamilie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡastfaˌmiːli̯ə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gastfamilie” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Gastfamilie is uncommon German at frequency #54,546 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡastfaˌmiːli̯ə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "„Familie, die einen meist ortsfremden Menschen (zum Beispiel Austauschschüler oder Au-pair) freiwillig für einen bestimmten Zeitraum im Rahmen einer Veranstaltung aufnimmt“".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gastfamilie, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gastfamilie, spelled G-A-S-T-F-A-M-I-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1„Familie, die einen meist ortsfremden Menschen (zum Beispiel Austauschschüler oder Au-pair) freiwillig für einen bestimmten Zeitraum im Rahmen einer Veranstaltung aufnimmt“
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 “Gastfamilie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-A-S-T-F-A-M-I-L-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.