Gefängniswärter
[ɡəˈfɛŋnɪsˌvɛʁtɐ]
The verdict
“Gefängniswärter” is uncommon German (frequency #90,303 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,303
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mitglied des Sicherheitspersonals eines Gefängnisses
Corpus desk
Index DE-gefangniswarter · Gefängniswärter · German
Gefängniswärter · rank #90,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,303
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gefällte
Nearest frequency peer: gefällte (-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 „Gefängniswärter“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gedenkminute
Gedenkminute
9,701 corpus weight
- geflügeltes
geflügeltes
9,700 corpus weight
- gefällte
gefällte
9,699 corpus weight
- Gefängniswä…
Gefängniswärter
9,698 corpus weight
- gehet
gehet
9,697 corpus weight
- Geibel
Geibel
9,696 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gefängniswärter“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gefängniswärter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈfɛŋnɪsˌvɛʁtɐ] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #90,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gefängniswärter“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gefängniswärter is uncommon German at frequency #90,303 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈfɛŋnɪsˌvɛʁtɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mitglied des Sicherheitspersonals eines Gefängnisses".
No misspelling variants are generated for Gefängniswärter in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Gefängniswärter, spelled G-E-F-Ä-N-G-N-I-S-W-Ä-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mitglied des Sicherheitspersonals eines Gefängnisses
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gefängniswärter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie überwältigten die Gefängniswärter und letztendlich gelang ihnen die Flucht.
„Nie im Leben hätte ich der Zärtlichkeit, die sich in meinem Herzen angesammelt hatte, vor diesem Gorilla von einem Gefängniswärter, der hinter uns stand, Ausdruck verleihen können.“
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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