Gegebenheit
[ɡəˈɡeːbn̩haɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Gegebenheit” is uncommon German (frequency #81,575 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,575
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vorliegender, gegebener Umstand oder auch Zustand, der Fakt ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-gegebenheit · Gegebenheit · German
Gegebenheit · rank #81,575 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,575
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gefängniszelle
Nearest frequency peer: Gefängniszelle (-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 „Gegebenheit“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gaswerk
Gaswerk
18,430 corpus weight
- Gedankenspi…
Gedankenspiele
18,428 corpus weight
- Gefängnisze…
Gefängniszelle
18,427 corpus weight
- Gegebenheit
Gegebenheit
18,426 corpus weight
- Gegenlicht
Gegenlicht
18,425 corpus weight
- gegossenen
gegossenen
18,423 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gegebenheit“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gegebenheit“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gegebenheit is uncommon German at frequency #81,575 among 5,117 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gegebenheit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Cyberkriminellen sind höchst innovativ und passen sich veränderten Gegebenheiten sehr schnell an.“
„Hinter dieser Gegebenheit verbirgt sich das Geheimnis, warum Risikosport und Grenzgang, aber auch zahlreiche Sportformen und Hobbies im mittleren Gefahrenbereich, Außenstehenden keinen inneren Zugang gewähren.“
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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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