Gaudium
[ˈɡaʊ̯di̯ʊm]
The verdict
“Gaudium” is uncommon German (frequency #94,303 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,303
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - große, helle Freude
Corpus desk
Index DE-gaudium · Gaudium · German
Gaudium · rank #94,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,303
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gastrecht
Nearest frequency peer: Gastrecht (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Gaudium“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- gackern
gackern
5,701 corpus weight
- Gammel
Gammel
5,700 corpus weight
- Gastrecht
Gastrecht
5,699 corpus weight
- Gaudium
Gaudium
5,698 corpus weight
- Gebinde
Gebinde
5,697 corpus weight
- geblättert
geblättert
5,696 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gaudium“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gaudium |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡaʊ̯di̯ʊm] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gaudium“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gaudium is uncommon German at frequency #94,303 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡaʊ̯di̯ʊm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "große, helle Freude".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Gaudium, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Gaudium, spelled G-A-U-D-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1große, helle Freude
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gaudium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Diesmal war er, zum Gaudium der Lokalblätter, mit zwanzig Metern Gummischnur und zwei Topfenkolatschen in den Hosentaschen beim Ladendiebstahl erwischt worden.“
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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