Geistesgeschichte
[ˈɡaɪ̯stəsɡəˌʃɪçtə]
The verdict
“Geistesgeschichte” is uncommon German (frequency #52,107 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,107
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - historische Entwicklung/Geschichte der Denkweisen
Corpus desk
Index DE-geistesgeschichte · Geistesgeschichte · German
Geistesgeschichte · rank #52,107 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,107
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,401
- PHOTO-FINISH Geilenkirchen
Nearest frequency peer: Geilenkirchen (-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 “Geistesgeschichte”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- 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
- gekochten
gekochten
47,892 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Geistesgeschichte” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geistesgeschichte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡaɪ̯stəsɡəˌʃɪçtə] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #52,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Geistesgeschichte” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Geistesgeschichte is uncommon German at frequency #52,107 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡaɪ̯stəsɡəˌʃɪçtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "historische Entwicklung/Geschichte der Denkweisen".
Zero misspellings are on record for Geistesgeschichte in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Geistesgeschichte, spelled G-E-I-S-T-E-S-G-E-S-C-H-I-C-H-T-E.
Definition
- 1historische Entwicklung/Geschichte der Denkweisen
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 17 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.