gequälten
[ɡəˈkvɛːltn̩]
The verdict
“gequälten” is an uncommon German word, ranked #85,283 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #85,283
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gequälten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈkvɛːltn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gequälten” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for gequälten is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈkvɛːltn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #85,283 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for gequälten in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 gequälten, spelled G-E-Q-U-Ä-L-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
- 4Dativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
- 5Genitiv Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
- 6Dativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
- 8Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
- 9Genitiv Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
- 10Dativ Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
- 11Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
- 12Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gequält
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-Q-U-Ä-L-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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