gehts

/[ɡeːt͡s]/ abbrev

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,190

in German word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

gehts is anGermanabbrev. It means: geht es Pronounced [ɡeːt͡s]. It ranks #3,190 in German word frequency. Often confused with get and gent.

Key facts for gehts
PropertyValue
Headwordgehts
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbrev
IPA[ɡeːt͡s]
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,190
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gehts in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for gehts is 5 letters long, classified as anabbrev, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡeːt͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,190 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "geht es".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for gehts, with forms such as "eghts", "gehhts", and "gehtss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "get", "gent", "guts", 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 gehts, spelled G-E-H-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    geht es

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eghts,gehhts,gehtss,gehtts,geths,ggehts,ghets

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gehts

Misspelling Variants of "gehts"

eghts5gehhts6gehtss6gehtts6geths5ggehts6ghets5
Misspelling Variants of "gehts"

Frequency rank: #3,190 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gehts"?
"gehts" is spelled G-E-H-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡeːt͡s].
What does "gehts" mean?
As an abbrev, "gehts" means: geht es
What words are commonly confused with "gehts"?
"gehts" is commonly confused with "get", "gent", "guts". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gehts"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gehts" is [ɡeːt͡s]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gehts" come from?
"gehts" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.