gefühlsselig
[ɡəˈfyːlsˌzeːlɪç]
The verdict
“gefühlsselig” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich seinen Gefühlen hingebend
Corpus desk
Index DE-gefuhlsselig · gefühlsselig · German
gefühlsselig · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gefühlsselig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈfyːlsˌzeːlɪç] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gefühlsselig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gefühlsselig is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡəˈfyːlsˌzeːlɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich seinen Gefühlen hingebend".
gefühlsselig has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is gefühlsselig, spelled G-E-F-Ü-H-L-S-S-E-L-I-G.
Definition
- 1sich seinen Gefühlen hingebend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gefühlsselig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Abgesehen von den Auswüchsen einer allzu gefühlsseligen oder gar chauvinistischen Deutschtümelei, wie sie sich besonders um die Jahrhundertwende und dann während des Faschismus breitmachte, ist das Zurückgreifen auf gute alte Wörter zur Bereicherung des Wortbestandes sehr zu begrüßen.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.