Gdańsk
The verdict
“Gdańsk” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Großstadt in der polnischen Woiwodschaft Pommern; Danzig
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gdańsk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ɡdaj̃sk] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gdańsk” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gdańsk is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡdaj̃sk]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Großstadt in der polnischen Woiwodschaft Pommern; Danzig".
No misspelling variants are generated for Gdańsk in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Gdańsk, spelled G-D-A-Ń-S-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Großstadt in der polnischen Woiwodschaft Pommern; Danzig
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Using “Gdańsk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-D-A-Ń-S-K — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡdaj̃sk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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