Geldnot

[ˈɡɛltˌnoːt]

/[ˈɡɛltˌnoːt]/ noun

The verdict

“Geldnot” is uncommon German (frequency #68,259 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,259
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Situation, in der man sehr wenig Geld zur Verfügung hat

Corpus desk

Index DE-geldnot · Geldnot · German

Geldnot · rank #68,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #68,259
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH gelaunten

Nearest frequency peer: gelaunten (-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 „Geldnot“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Geldnot
PropertyValue
HeadwordGeldnot
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈɡɛltˌnoːt]
Letters7
Frequency rank#68,259
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Geldnot“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Geldnotfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „gelaunten“ (#68,258), „Geldschein“ (#68,260), „geläufige“ (#68,261). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „Geldnot“ bei #68,259. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Geldnot is uncommon German at frequency #68,259 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡɛltˌnoːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Situation, in der man sehr wenig Geld zur Verfügung hat".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Geldnot, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Geldnot, spelled G-E-L-D-N-O-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Situation, in der man sehr wenig Geld zur Verfügung hat

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Geldnot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Die junge Familie steckt in massiver Geldnot.
  2. „… ist es nicht unerlaubt und pflichtwidrig, sich auf solche Art aus Not zu helfen? Gesetzt, er beschlösse es doch, so würde seine Maxime der Handlung so lauten: wenn ich mich in Geldnot zu sein glaube, so will ich Geld borgen und versprechen es zu bezahlen, ob ich gleich weiß, es werde niemals geschehen. Nun ist dieses Prinzip der Selbstliebe oder der ei…

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Geldnot"?
"Geldnot" is spelled G-E-L-D-N-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɡɛltˌnoːt].
What does "Geldnot" mean?
As a noun, "Geldnot" means: Situation, in der man sehr wenig Geld zur Verfügung hat
How do you pronounce "Geldnot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Geldnot" is [ˈɡɛltˌnoːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Geldnot" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list