Gegebenheit
[ɡəˈɡeːbn̩haɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Gegebenheit” is uncommon German (frequency #81,575 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,575
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - vorliegender, gegebener Umstand oder auch Zustand, der Fakt ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gegebenheit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈɡeːbn̩haɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gegebenheit” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Gegebenheit is uncommon German at frequency #81,575 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈɡeːbn̩haɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "vorliegender, gegebener Umstand oder auch Zustand, der Fakt ist".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Gegebenheit, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gegebenheit, spelled G-E-G-E-B-E-N-H-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1vorliegender, gegebener Umstand oder auch Zustand, der Fakt ist
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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 “Gegebenheit”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-G-E-B-E-N-H-E-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡəˈɡeːbn̩haɪ̯t] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.