geritzt
[ɡəˈʁɪt͡st]
The verdict
“geritzt” is uncommon German (frequency #62,451 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,451
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs ritzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-geritzt · geritzt · German
geritzt · rank #62,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,451
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gerissenen
Nearest frequency peer: gerissenen (-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 „geritzt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- gepflegter
gepflegter
37,553 corpus weight
- gerechtfert…
gerechtfertigte
37,552 corpus weight
- gerissenen
gerissenen
37,551 corpus weight
- geritzt
geritzt
37,550 corpus weight
- Gerolstein
Gerolstein
37,549 corpus weight
- gerster
gerster
37,548 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „geritzt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geritzt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʁɪt͡st] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „geritzt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
geritzt is uncommon German at frequency #62,451 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɡəˈʁɪt͡st]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs ritzen".
Zero misspellings are on record for geritzt in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 geritzt, spelled G-E-R-I-T-Z-T.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs ritzen
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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