gekracht

[ɡəˈkʁaxt]

/[ɡəˈkʁaxt]/ verb

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The verdict

“gekracht” is uncommon German (frequency #52,878 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,878
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs krachen

Corpus desk

Index DE-gekracht · gekracht · German

gekracht · rank #52,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,878
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH Geisteszustand

Nearest frequency peer: Geisteszustand (-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 „gekracht“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gekracht“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for gekracht
PropertyValue
Headwordgekracht
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ɡəˈkʁaxt]
Letters8
Frequency rank#52,878
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „gekracht“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).gekrachtfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Geisteszustand“ (#52,877), „geisteskranken“ (#52,876), „Gehöft“ (#52,875). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „gekracht“ bei #52,878. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

gekracht is uncommon German at frequency #52,878 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɡəˈkʁaxt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs krachen".

gekracht doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is gekracht, spelled G-E-K-R-A-C-H-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partizip Perfekt des Verbs krachen

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gekracht"?
"gekracht" is spelled G-E-K-R-A-C-H-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡəˈkʁaxt].
What does "gekracht" mean?
As a verb, "gekracht" means: Partizip Perfekt des Verbs krachen
How do you pronounce "gekracht"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gekracht" is [ɡəˈkʁaxt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gekracht", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gewölbte#52,895firmiert#52,844Festmahl#52,837Hausmüll#52,921

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list