gears
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The verdict
“gears” is uncommon German (frequency #95,601 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,601
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs gear
Corpus desk
Index DE-gears · gears · German
gears · rank #95,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,601
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH GDI
Nearest frequency peer: GDI (-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 „gears“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gastgarten
Gastgarten
4,403 corpus weight
- Gasthörer
Gasthörer
4,402 corpus weight
- GDI
GDI
4,401 corpus weight
- gears
gears
4,400 corpus weight
- Gebäudesani…
Gebäudesanierung
4,399 corpus weight
- Gedenktage
Gedenktage
4,398 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gears“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gears |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gears“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gears is uncommon German at frequency #95,601 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs gear".
gears doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is gears, spelled G-E-A-R-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs gear
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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