Geiß
Letters
4 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Geiß is aGermannoun. It means: Ziege, insbesondere das weibliche Tier Pronounced [ɡaɪ̯s].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geiß |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡaɪ̯s] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Geiß is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡaɪ̯s]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Geiß in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Geiß, spelled G-E-I-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ziege, insbesondere das weibliche Tier
- 2weibliches Tier des Damwilds
- 3weibliche Gämse, weibliches Tier des Gamswilds
- 4weibliches Reh, weibliches Tier des Rehwilds
- 5weibliches Tier des Steinwilds
- 6Gestalt/Figur eines, im deutschsprachigen Raum eines der bekanntesten, Märchen der Brüder Grimm (als „Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geißlein“ oder „Der Wolf und die sieben Geißlein“) bekannt; Mutter/Geißenmutter der jungen Geißlein
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