gelernt
[ɡəˈlɛʁnt]
The verdict
“gelernt” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,552
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine abgeschlossene Ausbildung in einem bestimmten Beruf habend, eine Lehre / einen Lehrberuf absolviert habend
Corpus desk
Index DE-gelernt · gelernt · German
gelernt · rank #1,552 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,552
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH findest
Nearest frequency peer: findest (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „gelernt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- erscheint
erscheint
98,452 corpus weight
- fiel
fiel
98,451 corpus weight
- findest
findest
98,450 corpus weight
- gelernt
gelernt
98,449 corpus weight
- gesprochen
gesprochen
98,448 corpus weight
- handeln
handeln
98,446 corpus weight
What this shows „gelernt“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gelernt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈlɛʁnt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gelernt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around gelernt (IPA [ɡəˈlɛʁnt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,552 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for gelernt, with forms such as "eglernt", "geelrnt", and "gelenrt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gemeint", "gemerkt", "gewarnt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is gelernt, spelled G-E-L-E-R-N-T.
Definition
- 1eine abgeschlossene Ausbildung in einem bestimmten Beruf habend, eine Lehre / einen Lehrberuf absolviert habend
- 2eine Fähigkeit sich angeeignet habend; eine Kenntnis erworben habend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gelernt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die gelernte Zahnarzthelferin setzte ihren Job aufs Spiel, ließ Termine platzen, weil sie nicht vom Spiegel wegkam.“
„Zuvor gelernte Vokabeln konnten die Probanden nach dem Schlafen perfekt.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eglernt
- geelrnt
- gelenrt
- gelernnt
- gelerntt
- gelerrnt
- gelertn
- gellernt
- gelrent
- ggelernt
- gleernt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gelernt - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gelernt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).