Gedicht
[ɡəˈdɪçt]
The verdict
“Gedicht” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,709. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,709
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lyrisches sprachliches Kunstwerk, das meist schriftlich und in Strophen- und Versform vorliegt
Corpus desk
Index DE-gedicht · Gedicht · German
Gedicht · rank #5,709 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,709
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gedenken
Nearest frequency peer: gedenken (-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 „Gedicht“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Europe
Europe
94,295 corpus weight
- frühe
frühe
94,294 corpus weight
- gedenken
gedenken
94,293 corpus weight
- Gedicht
Gedicht
94,292 corpus weight
- gekennzeich…
gekennzeichnet
94,291 corpus weight
- geladen
geladen
94,290 corpus weight
What this shows „Gedicht“ 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 | Gedicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈdɪçt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gedicht“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Gedicht (IPA [ɡəˈdɪçt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,709 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gedicht, with forms such as "egdicht", "gdeicht", and "gedciht". 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, "Gicht", "Gesicht", "Gericht", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Gedicht, spelled G-E-D-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1lyrisches sprachliches Kunstwerk, das meist schriftlich und in Strophen- und Versform vorliegt
- 2etwas außergewöhnlich gut Gelungenes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gedicht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Manche Menschen finden Trost in Gedichten.
„Die Gedichte waren viel interessanter.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egdicht
- gdeicht
- gedciht
- geddicht
- gediccht
- gedichht
- gedichtt
- gedicth
- gedihct
- geidcht
- ggedicht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gedicht - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Gedicht", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).