Gedankenspiele
[ɡəˈdaŋkn̩ˌʃpiːlə]
The verdict
“Gedankenspiele” is uncommon German (frequency #81,573 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,573
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante für den Dativ Singular des Substantivs Gedankenspiel
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gedankenspiele |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈdaŋkn̩ˌʃpiːlə] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #81,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gedankenspiele” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Gedankenspiele is uncommon German at frequency #81,573 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈdaŋkn̩ˌʃpiːlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Gedankenspiele, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Gedankenspiele, spelled G-E-D-A-N-K-E-N-S-P-I-E-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variante für den Dativ Singular des Substantivs Gedankenspiel
- 2Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Gedankenspiel
- 3Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Gedankenspiel
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Gedankenspiel
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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Using “Gedankenspiele”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-D-A-N-K-E-N-S-P-I-E-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.