gehörig
[ɡəˈhøːʁɪç]
The verdict
“gehörig” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,810. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,810
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu jemandem oder etwas gehörend
Corpus desk
Index DE-gehorig · gehörig · German
gehörig · rank #14,810 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,810
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gegenseite
Nearest frequency peer: Gegenseite (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „gehörig“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gefüttert
gefüttert
85,193 corpus weight
- Gegenseite
Gegenseite
85,192 corpus weight
- gehörig
gehörig
85,191 corpus weight
- gelte
gelte
85,190 corpus weight
- gelungenen
gelungenen
85,189 corpus weight
- Genesung
Genesung
85,188 corpus weight
What this shows „gehörig“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gehörig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈhøːʁɪç] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gehörig“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gehörig (IPA [ɡəˈhøːʁɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,810 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gehörig, with forms such as "eghörig", "gehhörig", and "gehröig". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "gehört", "gehörte", "gehörst", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is gehörig, spelled G-E-H-Ö-R-I-G.
Definition
- 1zu jemandem oder etwas gehörend
- 2einer Sache angemessen, wie es sich gehört
- 3reichlich
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gehörig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„türkisch“ bedeutet auch „zu den Turkvölkern gehörig“.
Im Duden findet sich zu „hierher“ die Erläuterung: : die hierher (zu dieser Gruppe, Kategorie) gehörigen Tiere.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eghörig
- gehhörig
- gehröig
- gehöirg
- gehörgi
- gehörigg
- gehörrig
- geöhrig
- ggehörig
- gheörig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gehörig - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gehörig", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).