Geraldine
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The verdict
“Geraldine” is uncommon German (frequency #79,202 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,202
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - englischer weiblicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-geraldine · Geraldine · German
Geraldine · rank #79,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,202
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH geradem
Nearest frequency peer: geradem (-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 „Geraldine“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gemengelage
Gemengelage
20,801 corpus weight
- geradem
geradem
20,800 corpus weight
- Geraldine
Geraldine
20,799 corpus weight
- geraubte
geraubte
20,798 corpus weight
- geraubten
geraubten
20,797 corpus weight
- Gerippe
Gerippe
20,796 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Geraldine“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geraldine |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Geraldine“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Geraldine is uncommon German at frequency #79,202 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "englischer weiblicher Vorname".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Geraldine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Geraldine, spelled G-E-R-A-L-D-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1englischer weiblicher Vorname
This word in other languages
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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