Geologe
[ɡeoˈloːɡə]
The verdict
“Geologe” is uncommon German (frequency #52,111 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,111
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in der Geologie tätiger Wissenschaftler
Corpus desk
Index DE-geologe · Geologe · German
Geologe · rank #52,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,111
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Geopolitik
Nearest frequency peer: Geopolitik (+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 „Geologe“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- geistliches
geistliches
47,893 corpus weight
- gekochten
gekochten
47,892 corpus weight
- Geologe
Geologe
47,890 corpus weight
- Geopolitik
Geopolitik
47,889 corpus weight
- gerufenen
gerufenen
47,888 corpus weight
- gescheite
gescheite
47,887 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Geologe“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geologe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡeoˈloːɡə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Geologe“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Geologe is uncommon German at frequency #52,111 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡeoˈloːɡə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in der Geologie tätiger Wissenschaftler".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Geologe in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Geologe, spelled G-E-O-L-O-G-E.
Definition
- 1in der Geologie tätiger Wissenschaftler
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Geologe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Geologen haben im Vergleich mit Archäologen größere Chancen, in der Privatwirtschaft unterzukommen.
„Meine Schwiegermutter heiratete und fuhr mit ihrem Mann zusammen nach Sachalin, wo die beiden fünfundzwanzig Jahre lang als Geologen nach Öl und anderen Bodenschätzen suchten.“
This word in other languages
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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