Gehilfe
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,637
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
Gehilfe is aGermannoun. It means: Person, die „eine Gehilfenprüfung bestanden hat“ Pronounced [ɡəˈhɪlfə]. Often confused with geile and Gehirne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gehilfe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈhɪlfə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gehilfe is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈhɪlfə]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,637 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gehilfe, with forms such as "eghilfe", "gehhilfe", and "gehifle". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "geile", "Gehirne", "Gehölze", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Gehilfe, spelled G-E-H-I-L-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Person, die „eine Gehilfenprüfung bestanden hat“
- 2Person, die bei bestimmten Arbeiten als Hilfe mitwirkt
- 3Person, die bei einer Straftat unterstützend mitgewirkt hat
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eghilfe,gehhilfe,gehifle,gehilef,gehilffe,gehillfe,gehlife,geihlfe,ggehilfe,gheilfe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Gehilfe
Misspelling Variants of "Gehilfe"
Frequency rank: #44,637 in German
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