gelesen
[ɡəˈleːzn̩]
The verdict
“gelesen” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,224. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,224
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs lesen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gelesen · gelesen · German
gelesen · rank #1,224 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,224
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gesamte
Nearest frequency peer: gesamte (+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 „gelesen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bestehen
bestehen
98,780 corpus weight
- folgende
folgende
98,779 corpus weight
- gelesen
gelesen
98,777 corpus weight
- gesamte
gesamte
98,776 corpus weight
- gezeigt
gezeigt
98,775 corpus weight
- Grenze
Grenze
98,774 corpus weight
What this shows „gelesen“ 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 | gelesen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəˈleːzn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gelesen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gelesen (IPA [ɡəˈleːzn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,224 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs lesen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gelesen, with forms such as "eglesen", "geelsen", and "geleesn". 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, "gelten", "Genese", "gesehen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 gelesen, spelled G-E-L-E-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs lesen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eglesen
- geelsen
- geleesn
- gelesenn
- gelesne
- gelessen
- gellesen
- gelseen
- ggelesen
- gleesen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gelesen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "gelesen", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).