gebe frei
The verdict
“gebe frei” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs freigeben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gebe frei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌɡeːbə ˈfʁaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gebe frei” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for gebe frei is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌɡeːbə ˈfʁaɪ̯]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for gebe frei 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 gebe frei, spelled G-E-B-E- -F-R-E-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs freigeben
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs freigeben
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs freigeben
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Using “gebe frei”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-B-E- -F-R-E-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌɡeːbə ˈfʁaɪ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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