Gefährt
[ɡəˈfɛːɐ̯t]
The verdict
“Gefährt” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,739. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,739
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - jegliche Art von Fahrzeug; Gerät, das Personen oder Objekte transportieren kann
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 | Gefährt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈfɛːɐ̯t] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gefährt” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Gefährt (IPA [ɡəˈfɛːɐ̯t]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,739 among 54,401 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "jegliche Art von Fahrzeug; Gerät, das Personen oder Objekte transportieren kann".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gefährt, with forms such as "egfährt", "geffährt", and "gefhärt". 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, "genäht", "Gewähr", "gemäht", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Gefährt, spelled G-E-F-Ä-H-R-T.
Definition
- 1jegliche Art von Fahrzeug; Gerät, das Personen oder Objekte transportieren kann
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egfährt
- geffährt
- gefhärt
- gefähhrt
- gefährrt
- gefährtt
- gefähtr
- gefärht
- geäfhrt
- gfeährt
- ggefährt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gefährt - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “Gefährt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-F-Ä-H-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡəˈfɛːɐ̯t] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “genäht” - see the side-by-side comparison. Gefährt vs genäht
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
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.