Geldgier
[ˈɡɛltˌɡiːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Geldgier” is uncommon German (frequency #59,680 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,680
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - starkes Verlangen nach finanziellen Mitteln
Corpus desk
Index DE-geldgier · Geldgier · German
Geldgier · rank #59,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,680
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gelblichen
Nearest frequency peer: gelblichen (-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 „Geldgier“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- geistlich
geistlich
40,324 corpus weight
- gekrönten
gekrönten
40,323 corpus weight
- gelblichen
gelblichen
40,322 corpus weight
- Geldgier
Geldgier
40,321 corpus weight
- gelebter
gelebter
40,319 corpus weight
- geller
geller
40,318 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Geldgier“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geldgier |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡɛltˌɡiːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Geldgier“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Geldgier is uncommon German at frequency #59,680 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡɛltˌɡiːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "starkes Verlangen nach finanziellen Mitteln".
Geldgier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Geldgier, spelled G-E-L-D-G-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1starkes Verlangen nach finanziellen Mitteln
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Geldgier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Für seine Geldgier würde er auch über Leichen gehen.
„Ich mußte meine Besuche einstellen und sehen, wie die Sache zwischen ihr und ihrem Vater ausging; in seiner Geldgier mußte er sehr ärgerlich darüber sein, daß Lia keinen Weg gefunden hatte, mich zum Kauf des Wagens zu bewegen, ob sie sich mir nun hingab oder nicht, denn das war ihm gewiß gleichgültig.“
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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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