Gelbfieber
[ˈɡɛlpˌfiːbɐ]
The verdict
“Gelbfieber” is uncommon German (frequency #75,685 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,685
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Krankheit, die durch eine Infektion mit dem Gelbfieber-Virus ausgelöst wird und die in tropischen und subtropischen Gebieten in Südamerika und Afrika vorkommt
Corpus desk
Index DE-gelbfieber · Gelbfieber · German
Gelbfieber · rank #75,685 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,685
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gelage
Nearest frequency peer: Gelage (-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 „Gelbfieber“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- 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
- gemahlene
gemahlene
24,313 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gelbfieber“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gelbfieber |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡɛlpˌfiːbɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gelbfieber“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gelbfieber is uncommon German at frequency #75,685 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡɛlpˌfiːbɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Krankheit, die durch eine Infektion mit dem Gelbfieber-Virus ausgelöst wird und die in tropischen und subtropischen Gebieten in Südamerika und Afrika vorkommt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Gelbfieber, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Gelbfieber, spelled G-E-L-B-F-I-E-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Krankheit, die durch eine Infektion mit dem Gelbfieber-Virus ausgelöst wird und die in tropischen und subtropischen Gebieten in Südamerika und Afrika vorkommt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gelbfieber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Gelbfieber ist in den Tropen verbreitet.
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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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