gera
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The verdict
“gera” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,085) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,085
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tun
Corpus desk
Index DE-gera · gera · German
gera · rank #12,085 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,085
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gekümmert
Nearest frequency peer: gekümmert (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „gera“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- gedient
gedient
87,919 corpus weight
- geheilt
geheilt
87,918 corpus weight
- gekümmert
gekümmert
87,917 corpus weight
- gera
gera
87,916 corpus weight
- gesichtet
gesichtet
87,915 corpus weight
- gestützt
gestützt
87,914 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „gera“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | gera |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „gera“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gera is neighbouring look-alikes ("get", "Goa", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced […]. Frequency #12,085 among 5,117 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for gera, with forms such as "egra", "gerra", and "ggera". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "get", "Goa", "gern", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is gera, spelled G-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1tun
- 2machen, bereiten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gera appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kunnu tygum gjørt so væl at bílagt bussin fyri meg?
Ger tað fyri manndóm tín!
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egra
- gerra
- ggera
- grea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gera - 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 "gera", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).