gepolstert

[ɡəˈpɔlstɐt]

/[ɡəˈpɔlstɐt]/ adj

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The verdict

“gepolstert” is uncommon German (frequency #81,594 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,594
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - stellenweise oder ganz mit einer relativ dicken, elastischen Oberfläche versehen/appliziert

Corpus desk

Index DE-gepolstert · gepolstert · German

gepolstert · rank #81,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,594
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH geplagte

Nearest frequency peer: geplagte (-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 „gepolstert“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gepolstert“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for gepolstert
PropertyValue
Headwordgepolstert
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ɡəˈpɔlstɐt]
Letters10
Frequency rank#81,594
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „gepolstert“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).gepolstertfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „geplagte“ (#81,593), „gepresste“ (#81,595), „Geparden“ (#81,592). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „gepolstert“ bei #81,594. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

gepolstert is uncommon German at frequency #81,594 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡəˈpɔlstɐt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "stellenweise oder ganz mit einer relativ dicken, elastischen Oberfläche versehen/appliziert".

gepolstert doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is gepolstert, spelled G-E-P-O-L-S-T-E-R-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    stellenweise oder ganz mit einer relativ dicken, elastischen Oberfläche versehen/appliziert

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how gepolstert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Der oben liegende Arm wird über den Kopf gestreckt und auf einer gepolsterten Armhalterung befestigt.“

Antonyms

ungepolstert

This word in other languages

padded(English)acolchado(Español)rembourré(Français)acolchoado(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gepolstert"?
"gepolstert" is spelled G-E-P-O-L-S-T-E-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡəˈpɔlstɐt].
What does "gepolstert" mean?
As an adjective, "gepolstert" means: stellenweise oder ganz mit einer relativ dicken, elastischen Oberfläche versehen/appliziert
How do you pronounce "gepolstert"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gepolstert" is [ɡəˈpɔlstɐt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gepolstert" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gepolstert", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list