gauche

Name: gauche, German Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[ɡoʃ]

/[ɡoʃ]/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“gauche” is uncommon German (frequency #90,294 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,294
frequency rank, German: 5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - link, linker

Corpus desk

Index DE-gauche · gauche · German

gauche · rank #90,294 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-RARE #90,294
LEN-LONG 6 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,117
PHOTO-FINISH Gastspielen

Nearest frequency peer: Gastspielen (-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.

Gartentor

9,711
Gastgeberin…

9,710
Gastspielen

9,708
gauche

9,707
Gebetsraum

9,705
geborgenen

9,704

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gauche“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Key facts for gauche
Property	Value
Headword	gauche
Language	German
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	[ɡoʃ]
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#90,294
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „gauche“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.gauchefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#90,294

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Gastspielen“ (#90,293), „Gebetsraum“ (#90,296), „Gastgeberinnen“ (#90,291). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „gauche“ bei #90,294. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

gauche is uncommon German at frequency #90,294 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡoʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "link, linker".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gauche, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is gauche, spelled G-A-U-C-H-E.

Definition

1
link, linker

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gauche"?

"gauche" is spelled G-A-U-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡoʃ].

What does "gauche" mean?

As an adjective, "gauche" means: link, linker

How do you pronounce "gauche"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gauche" is [ɡoʃ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "gauche" come from?

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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gauche", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Geibel#90,305 Gepard#90,314 frater#90,268 Gundel#90,367