gelt
[ɡɛlt]
The verdict
“gelt” is uncommon German (frequency #99,860 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,860
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (zeitweise) nicht fortpflanzungsfähig
Corpus desk
Index DE-gelt · gelt · German
gelt · rank #99,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,860
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gels
Nearest frequency peer: Gels (-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 „gelt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- gelaufene
gelaufene
144 corpus weight
- Geldregen
Geldregen
143 corpus weight
- Gels
Gels
142 corpus weight
- gelt
gelt
141 corpus weight
- Gemeinschaf…
Gemeinschaftsschulen
140 corpus weight
- Gemeinwohls
Gemeinwohls
139 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gelt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gelt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡɛlt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #99,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gelt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gelt is uncommon German at frequency #99,860 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡɛlt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(zeitweise) nicht fortpflanzungsfähig".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gelt, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 gelt, spelled G-E-L-T.
Definition
- 1(zeitweise) nicht fortpflanzungsfähig
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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