gehörlos
[ɡəˈhøːɐ̯loːs]
The verdict
“gehörlos” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ohne Gehör seiend, taub
Corpus desk
Index DE-gehorlos · gehörlos · German
gehörlos · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | gehörlos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈhøːɐ̯loːs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gehörlos“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gehörlos is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡəˈhøːɐ̯loːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ohne Gehör seiend, taub".
Zero misspellings are on record for gehörlos in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is gehörlos, spelled G-E-H-Ö-R-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1ohne Gehör seiend, taub
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gehörlos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Mensch ist nicht nur dann gehörlos, wenn er einen bestimmten Grad der Hörfähigkeit unterschreitet, sondern vor allem wenn er sich selbst nicht der Gemeinschaft der Hörenden zugehörig fühlt.
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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.