gekonnt
[ɡəˈkɔnt]
The verdict
“gekonnt” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #11,879 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #11,879
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - große Fähigkeiten, etwa handwerklicher oder technischer Art, unter Beweis stellend
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gekonnt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈkɔnt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gekonnt” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for gekonnt is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈkɔnt]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,879 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "große Fähigkeiten, etwa handwerklicher oder technischer Art, unter Beweis stellend".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gekonnt, with forms such as "egkonnt", "gekkonnt", and "geknont". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "gönnt", "genannt", "gewinnt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 gekonnt, spelled G-E-K-O-N-N-T.
Definition
- 1große Fähigkeiten, etwa handwerklicher oder technischer Art, unter Beweis stellend
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egkonnt,gekkonnt,geknont,gekonntt,gekont,gekontn,geoknnt,ggekonnt,gkeonnt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gekonnt - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “gekonnt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-K-O-N-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡəˈkɔnt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “gönnt” - see the side-by-side comparison. gekonnt vs gönnt
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.