gelungen
[ɡəˈlʊŋən]
The verdict
“gelungen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #3,315. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,315
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rückblickend betrachtet: positive Erwartung vollständig erfüllend, mit ganz und gar gutem Ergebnis
Corpus desk
Index DE-gelungen · gelungen · German
gelungen · rank #3,315 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,315
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gefühlt
Nearest frequency peer: gefühlt (-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 „gelungen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Franken
Franken
96,689 corpus weight
- free
free
96,688 corpus weight
- gefühlt
gefühlt
96,687 corpus weight
- gelungen
gelungen
96,686 corpus weight
- Gerechtigke…
Gerechtigkeit
96,685 corpus weight
- gering
gering
96,684 corpus weight
What this shows „gelungen“ 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 | gelungen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈlʊŋən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gelungen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around gelungen (IPA [ɡəˈlʊŋən]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,315 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for gelungen, with forms such as "eglungen", "gellungen", and "gelnugen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "genügen", "geringen", "gesunden", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is gelungen, spelled G-E-L-U-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1rückblickend betrachtet: positive Erwartung vollständig erfüllend, mit ganz und gar gutem Ergebnis
- 2einen erheiternden Eindruck machend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gelungen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das gelungene Bubenstück hätte ihm eine erhebliche Aufmerksamkeit gesichert und einen gewaltigen Ansehensschub verschafft.“
Mit dem vom Land Nordrhein-Westfalen gestifteten Preis wird jährlich in NRW die gelungenste Sanierung eines denkmalgeschützten Objekts in Privatbesitz gewürdigt.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eglungen
- gellungen
- gelnugen
- gelugnen
- gelunegn
- gelungenn
- gelunggen
- gelungne
- gelunngen
- geulngen
- ggelungen
- gleungen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gelungen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "gelungen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).