Gepflogenheit
[ɡəˈp͡floːɡn̩haɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Gepflogenheit” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine nicht verbindliche Übereinkunft, die durch häufiges Wiederholen zur Konvention geworden ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-gepflogenheit · Gepflogenheit · German
Gepflogenheit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gepflogenheit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈp͡floːɡn̩haɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gepflogenheit“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gepflogenheit is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈp͡floːɡn̩haɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine nicht verbindliche Übereinkunft, die durch häufiges Wiederholen zur Konvention geworden ist".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gepflogenheit, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Gepflogenheit, spelled G-E-P-F-L-O-G-E-N-H-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1eine nicht verbindliche Übereinkunft, die durch häufiges Wiederholen zur Konvention geworden ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gepflogenheit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Im Übrigen gehöre das Material gemäß den weltweiten Gepflogenheiten nicht mehr EDF, sondern dem russischen Unternehmen Tenex, das es wiederaufbereite.
„Mit der Zeit passte ich mich den Bonner Gepflogenheiten und Dresscodes an.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.