Gel
[ɡeːl]
The verdict
“Gel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,641) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,641
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine feste, gallertartige Masse; ein mehrphasiges Gemisch aus einer festen Phase mit langen, oft stark verzweigten Teilchen und einer meist flüssigen Phase
Corpus desk
Index DE-gel · Gel · German
Gel · rank #15,641 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,641
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH geistiger
Nearest frequency peer: geistiger (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Gel“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- gehorsam
gehorsam
84,363 corpus weight
- Geige
Geige
84,362 corpus weight
- geistiger
geistiger
84,361 corpus weight
- Gel
Gel
84,360 corpus weight
- geopfert
geopfert
84,359 corpus weight
- gerieten
gerieten
84,358 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Gel“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Gel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡeːl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Gel“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Gel is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GG", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɡeːl]. Frequency #15,641 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Gloss: "eine feste, gallertartige Masse; ein mehrphasiges Gemisch aus einer festen Phase mit langen, oft stark verzweigten Teilchen und einer meist flüssigen Phase".
No misspelling variants are generated for Gel in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GG", "GM", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is Gel, spelled G-E-L.
Definition
- 1eine feste, gallertartige Masse; ein mehrphasiges Gemisch aus einer festen Phase mit langen, oft stark verzweigten Teilchen und einer meist flüssigen Phase
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gele können sich aus Solen bilden.
Er bringt seine Haare mit einem Gel in die gewünschte Form.
This word in other languages
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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