GDL
[ɡeːdeːˈʔɛl]
The verdict
“GDL” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,711) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,711
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer
Corpus desk
Index DE-gdl · GDL · German
GDL · rank #16,711 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,711
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gefälschte
Nearest frequency peer: gefälschte (+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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „GDL“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- fürn
fürn
83,293 corpus weight
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Galerien
83,292 corpus weight
- GDL
GDL
83,290 corpus weight
- gefälschte
gefälschte
83,289 corpus weight
- gehackt
gehackt
83,288 corpus weight
- geknüpft
geknüpft
83,287 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „GDL“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | GDL |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ɡeːdeːˈʔɛl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „GDL“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GDL is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "ge", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ɡeːdeːˈʔɛl]. Frequency #16,711 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer".
No generated misspelling entries exist for GDL in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "ge", "GG", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is GDL, spelled G-D-L.
Definition
- 1Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how GDL appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die GDL verhandelt des öfteren mit der DB.
Synonyms
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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