geistlichen
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,203
in German word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
geistlichen is anGermanadj. It means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich Pronounced [ˈɡaɪ̯stlɪçn̩]. It ranks #9,203 in German word frequency. Often confused with gestrichen and gemütlichen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geistlichen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈɡaɪ̯stlɪçn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for geistlichen is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡaɪ̯stlɪçn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,203 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for geistlichen, with forms such as "egistlichen", "geisltichen", and "geisstlichen". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "gestrichen", "gemütlichen", "Geistlicher", 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 geistlichen, spelled G-E-I-S-T-L-I-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
- 4Dativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
- 5Genitiv Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
- 6Dativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
- 8Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
- 9Genitiv Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
- 10Dativ Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
- 11Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
- 12Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs geistlich
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egistlichen,geisltichen,geisstlichen,geistilchen,geistlcihen,geistlicchen,geistlicehn,geistlichenn,geistlichhen,geistlichne,geistlihcen,geistllichen,geisttlichen,geitslichen,gesitlichen,ggeistlichen,giestlichen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for geistlichen
Misspelling Variants of "geistlichen"
Frequency rank: #9,203 in German
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Nearby German words
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