gerächt
[ɡəˈʁɛçt]
The verdict
“gerächt” is uncommon German (frequency #63,354 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,354
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs rächen
Corpus desk
Index DE-geracht · gerächt · German
gerächt · rank #63,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,354
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH germanischer
Nearest frequency peer: germanischer (-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 „gerächt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- gepinkelt
gepinkelt
36,650 corpus weight
- germanischer
germanischer
36,648 corpus weight
- gerächt
gerächt
36,647 corpus weight
- gerühmt
gerühmt
36,646 corpus weight
- gerüttelt
gerüttelt
36,645 corpus weight
- geschicktes
geschicktes
36,644 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gerächt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gerächt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʁɛçt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gerächt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gerächt is uncommon German at frequency #63,354 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɡəˈʁɛçt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs rächen".
gerächt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is gerächt, spelled G-E-R-Ä-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs rächen
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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