Geilenkirchen
[ˈɡaɪ̯lənˌkɪʁçn̩]
The verdict
“Geilenkirchen” is uncommon German (frequency #52,106 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,106
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-geilenkirchen · Geilenkirchen · German
Geilenkirchen · rank #52,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,106
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,401
- PHOTO-FINISH gehlen
Nearest frequency peer: gehlen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Geilenkirchen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- geheiligt
geheiligt
47,898 corpus weight
- gehisst
gehisst
47,897 corpus weight
- gehlen
gehlen
47,896 corpus weight
- Geilenkirch…
Geilenkirchen
47,895 corpus weight
- Geistesgesc…
Geistesgeschichte
47,894 corpus weight
- geistliches
geistliches
47,893 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Geilenkirchen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geilenkirchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡaɪ̯lənˌkɪʁçn̩] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #52,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Geilenkirchen” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Geilenkirchen is uncommon German at frequency #52,106 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈɡaɪ̯lənˌkɪʁçn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Geilenkirchen, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Geilenkirchen, spelled G-E-I-L-E-N-K-I-R-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Geilenkirchen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.