Gebet
[ɡəˈbeːt]
The verdict
“Gebet” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,608
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - an einen Gott gerichtete Bitte, Gespräch mit einem Gott
Corpus desk
Index DE-gebet · Gebet · German
Gebet · rank #7,608 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,608
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Flüssigkeit
Nearest frequency peer: Flüssigkeit (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Gebet“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Fass
Fass
92,396 corpus weight
- Festung
Festung
92,395 corpus weight
- Flüssigkeit
Flüssigkeit
92,394 corpus weight
- Gebet
Gebet
92,393 corpus weight
- gedeckt
gedeckt
92,392 corpus weight
- gefertigt
gefertigt
92,391 corpus weight
What this shows „Gebet“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Gebet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈbeːt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gebet“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Gebet (IPA [ɡəˈbeːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,608 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gebet, with forms such as "egbet", "gbeet", and "gebbet". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "get", "gibt", "geht", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Gebet, spelled G-E-B-E-T.
Definition
- 1an einen Gott gerichtete Bitte, Gespräch mit einem Gott
- 2meist festgelegte Worte, die an eine Gottheit gerichtet sind, um sie zu bitten, ihr zu danken oder sie zu verehren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gebet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Mensch, der sich vielen Glückes und seiner Schwäche bewußt ist, wird abergläubisch, flüchtet zum Gebete. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Als sie das Zimmer betrat, war ihr Vater noch ganz im Gebet versunken.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egbet
- gbeet
- gebbet
- gebett
- gebte
- geebt
- ggebet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gebet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gebet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).