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
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jegliche Art von Fahrzeug; Gerät, das Personen oder Objekte transportieren kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-gefahrt · Gefährt · German
Gefährt · rank #27,739 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,739
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gefährdete
Nearest frequency peer: gefährdete (-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 „Gefährt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gebären
gebären
72,265 corpus weight
- Gedenktag
Gedenktag
72,264 corpus weight
- gefährdete
gefährdete
72,263 corpus weight
- Gefährt
Gefährt
72,262 corpus weight
- Gehalts
Gehalts
72,261 corpus weight
- geheimnisvo…
geheimnisvoll
72,260 corpus weight
What this shows „Gefährt“ 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 | 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) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gefährt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Gefährt (IPA [ɡəˈfɛːɐ̯t]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,739 among 5,117 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gefährt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auf der Landstraße kam uns ein seltsames Gefährt entgegen.
„Zunächst gondelte das Gefährt zur Freude seiner Piloten in 75 Meter Höhe sanft über das Eismeer hinweg.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gefährt", 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).