Gentleman
[ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩mɛn]
The verdict
“Gentleman” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,589. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,589
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - besonders charmanter Mann mit guten Umgangsformen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gentleman · Gentleman · German
Gentleman · rank #17,589 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,589
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH genaues
Nearest frequency peer: genaues (-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 „Gentleman“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gehängt
gehängt
82,415 corpus weight
- gelber
gelber
82,414 corpus weight
- genaues
genaues
82,413 corpus weight
- Gentleman
Gentleman
82,412 corpus weight
- genäht
genäht
82,411 corpus weight
- geprägte
geprägte
82,410 corpus weight
What this shows „Gentleman“ 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 | Gentleman |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩mɛn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gentleman“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Gentleman (IPA [ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩mɛn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,589 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "besonders charmanter Mann mit guten Umgangsformen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gentleman, with forms such as "egntleman", "genlteman", and "genntleman". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Gentlemen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Gentleman, spelled G-E-N-T-L-E-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1besonders charmanter Mann mit guten Umgangsformen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gentleman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Denn der Strohhut, so kann man nachlesen, "verbindet die Einfachheit des Landmannes mit der smarten Eleganz des Gentleman".
Nach Auffassung Lewis Mumfords zeichnet einen Gentleman „Verkörperte Männlichkeit“ aus, „ein Beispiel vollkommenen Betragens, entschieden in allen Handlungen, stoisch im Leiden, selbstbeherrscht, rücksichtsvoll, physisch auf der Höhe und mit einer humanistischen Erziehung“.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egntleman
- genlteman
- genntleman
- gentelman
- gentleamn
- gentlemann
- gentlemman
- gentlemna
- gentlleman
- gentlmean
- genttleman
- getnleman
- ggentleman
- gnetleman
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gentleman - 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 "Gentleman", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).