Gedankenspiel
[ɡəˈdaŋkn̩ˌʃpiːl]
The verdict
“Gedankenspiel” is uncommon German (frequency #78,005 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,005
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Überlegung dazu, wie etwas sein könnte/sollte
Corpus desk
Index DE-gedankenspiel · Gedankenspiel · German
Gedankenspiel · rank #78,005 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,005
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH ged
Nearest frequency peer: ged (-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 „Gedankenspiel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- GBl
GBl
21,999 corpus weight
- gearbeiteten
gearbeiteten
21,998 corpus weight
- ged
ged
21,997 corpus weight
- Gedankenspi…
Gedankenspiel
21,996 corpus weight
- geduldigen
geduldigen
21,995 corpus weight
- gefestigte
gefestigte
21,994 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gedankenspiel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gedankenspiel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈdaŋkn̩ˌʃpiːl] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #78,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gedankenspiel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gedankenspiel is uncommon German at frequency #78,005 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈdaŋkn̩ˌʃpiːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Überlegung dazu, wie etwas sein könnte/sollte".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gedankenspiel in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Gedankenspiel, spelled G-E-D-A-N-K-E-N-S-P-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Überlegung dazu, wie etwas sein könnte/sollte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gedankenspiel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Zum Gedankenspiel, die Quotenmessung abzuschaffen [, …] sagte Friedrich Küppersbusch: ‚Es würde sich gar nichts ändern.‘“
„Die Mimik selbst, das heißt, das Vermögen, durch Bewegungen das Mienen- und Gebärdenspiel, das Gedankenspiel und den Willen abzubilden, beruht auf Ahmung.“
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).