gekaut
[ɡəˈkaʊ̯t]
The verdict
“gekaut” is uncommon German (frequency #84,011 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,011
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs kauen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gekaut · gekaut · German
gekaut · rank #84,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,011
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Geistesleben
Nearest frequency peer: Geistesleben (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „gekaut“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- geimpften
geimpften
15,993 corpus weight
- Geissens
Geissens
15,992 corpus weight
- Geistesleben
Geistesleben
15,991 corpus weight
- gekaut
gekaut
15,990 corpus weight
- gekonnten
gekonnten
15,989 corpus weight
- Geldquelle
Geldquelle
15,988 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gekaut“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gekaut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəˈkaʊ̯t] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gekaut“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gekaut is uncommon German at frequency #84,011 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɡəˈkaʊ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs kauen".
gekaut doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is gekaut, spelled G-E-K-A-U-T.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs kauen
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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