gelée
[ʒǝ.le]
The verdict
“gelée” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ausfrieren; Frost; Wackelpeter
Corpus desk
Index DE-gelee · gelée · German
gelée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gelée |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʒǝ.le] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gelée“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gelée is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʒǝ.le]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ausfrieren; Frost; Wackelpeter".
Zero misspellings are on record for gelée in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is gelée, spelled G-E-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Ausfrieren; Frost; Wackelpeter
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.