Gelage
[ɡəˈlaːɡə]
The verdict
“Gelage” is uncommon German (frequency #75,684 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,684
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gemeinsames Mahl mit übermäßigem Essen und Trinken
Corpus desk
Index DE-gelage · Gelage · German
Gelage · rank #75,684 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,684
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gekühlte
Nearest frequency peer: gekühlte (-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 „Gelage“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gehrden
Gehrden
24,320 corpus weight
- gejagten
gejagten
24,319 corpus weight
- gekühlte
gekühlte
24,318 corpus weight
- Gelage
Gelage
24,317 corpus weight
- Gelbfieber
Gelbfieber
24,316 corpus weight
- gelenkten
gelenkten
24,314 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gelage“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gelage |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈlaːɡə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gelage“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gelage is uncommon German at frequency #75,684 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈlaːɡə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gemeinsames Mahl mit übermäßigem Essen und Trinken".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Gelage in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gelage, spelled G-E-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1gemeinsames Mahl mit übermäßigem Essen und Trinken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gelage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Glaubt man den antiken Autoren, spielten Gastmähler und Gelage eine wichtige Rolle in der keltischen Gesellschaft.“
„Zwei Wächter hielten den zum Gelage angereisten Fürsten an den Armen fest.“
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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