Geburtshelfer
[ɡəˈbʊʁt͡sˌhɛlfɐ]
The verdict
“Geburtshelfer” is uncommon German (frequency #53,712 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,712
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die eine Gebärende bei der Geburt unterstützt und den Geburtsvorgang begleitet
Corpus desk
Index DE-geburtshelfer · Geburtshelfer · German
Geburtshelfer · rank #53,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,712
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gebälk
Nearest frequency peer: Gebälk (+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 „Geburtshelfer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gastland
Gastland
46,292 corpus weight
- Gaus
Gaus
46,291 corpus weight
- Geburtshelf…
Geburtshelfer
46,289 corpus weight
- Gebälk
Gebälk
46,288 corpus weight
- gedruckter
gedruckter
46,287 corpus weight
- geistreich
geistreich
46,286 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Geburtshelfer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geburtshelfer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈbʊʁt͡sˌhɛlfɐ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #53,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Geburtshelfer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Geburtshelfer is uncommon German at frequency #53,712 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈbʊʁt͡sˌhɛlfɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Geburtshelfer has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 Geburtshelfer, spelled G-E-B-U-R-T-S-H-E-L-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die eine Gebärende bei der Geburt unterstützt und den Geburtsvorgang begleitet
- 2Initiator/Verursacher von etwas Neuem
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Geburtshelfer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eine Hausgeburt sollte nur unter Aufsicht eines fachkundigen Geburtshelfers durchgeführt werden.
Bei der Geburt des Kalbes wurde der Knecht zum Geburtshelfer.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).