genetic
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The verdict
“genetic” is uncommon German (frequency #99,864 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,864
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - genetisch, die Vererbungslehre betreffend
Corpus desk
Index DE-genetic · genetic · German
genetic · rank #99,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,864
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH generative
Nearest frequency peer: generative (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “genetic”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gelt
gelt
141 corpus weight
- Gemeinschaf…
Gemeinschaftsschulen
140 corpus weight
- Gemeinwohls
Gemeinwohls
139 corpus weight
- generative
generative
138 corpus weight
- genetic
genetic
137 corpus weight
- genickt
genickt
134 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “genetic” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | genetic |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “genetic” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
genetic is uncommon German at frequency #99,864 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "genetisch, die Vererbungslehre betreffend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for genetic, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is genetic, spelled G-E-N-E-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1genetisch, die Vererbungslehre betreffend
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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