Germans
[ɡɛʁˈmaːns]
The verdict
“Germans” is uncommon German (frequency #79,206 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,206
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs German
Corpus desk
Index DE-germans · Germans · German
Germans · rank #79,206 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,206
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gerippe
Nearest frequency peer: Gerippe (-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 „Germans“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- geraubte
geraubte
20,798 corpus weight
- geraubten
geraubten
20,797 corpus weight
- Gerippe
Gerippe
20,796 corpus weight
- Germans
Germans
20,795 corpus weight
- Gernsheim
Gernsheim
20,794 corpus weight
- gerötet
gerötet
20,792 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Germans“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Germans |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡɛʁˈmaːns] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Germans“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Germans is uncommon German at frequency #79,206 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡɛʁˈmaːns]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs German".
Germans doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Germans, spelled G-E-R-M-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs German
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).