Genosse
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,499
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
Genosse is aGermannoun. It means: jemand, der eine andere Person durch bestimmte Lebensbereiche oder Unternehmungen begleitet Pronounced [ɡəˈnɔsə]. Often confused with Grosse and Genuss.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Genosse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈnɔsə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Genosse is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈnɔsə]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,499 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Genosse, with forms such as "egnosse", "gennosse", and "genose". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Grosse", "Genuss", "Getöse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Genosse, spelled G-E-N-O-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemand, der eine andere Person durch bestimmte Lebensbereiche oder Unternehmungen begleitet
- 2parteioffizielle Anrede und Bezeichnung in politisch links orientierten Parteien, Vereinen, Gruppierungen und so weiter; in Österreich im parlamentarischen Gebrauch für Abgeordnete aller Parteien, wenn bei Anträgen nicht alle Namen genannt werden
- 3bis 1990 offizielle Anrede in der NVA, der Volkspolizei, des MfS und Ähnlichem in der ehemaligen DDR
- 4offizielle Anrede in einigen realsozialistischen (ehemalige Sowjetunion, Bulgarien unter anderem) sowie anderen sozialistischen Staaten (China) und in deren bewaffneten Organen
- 5Mitglied einer Genossenschaft
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egnosse,gennosse,genose,genoses,genoße,gensose,geonsse,ggenosse,gneosse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Genosse"
Frequency rank: #12,499 in German
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