Gerste
[ˈɡɛʁstə]
The verdict
“Gerste” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,082. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,082
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine gedeihende Getreidepflanze mit kurzem Halm und langen Grannen, deren Körner besonders zum Bierbrauen und zu Futterzwecken verwendet werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-gerste · Gerste · German
Gerste · rank #30,082 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,082
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Generatoren
Nearest frequency peer: Generatoren (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Gerste“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gelernter
gelernter
69,922 corpus weight
- Generatoren
Generatoren
69,920 corpus weight
- Gerste
Gerste
69,919 corpus weight
- Gesandter
Gesandter
69,918 corpus weight
- geschmiedet
geschmiedet
69,917 corpus weight
- geschont
geschont
69,916 corpus weight
What this shows „Gerste“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Gerste |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡɛʁstə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gerste“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Gerste (IPA [ˈɡɛʁstə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,082 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gerste, with forms such as "egrste", "gerrste", and "gerset". 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, "geste", "Grete", "Gesten", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Gerste, spelled G-E-R-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1eine gedeihende Getreidepflanze mit kurzem Halm und langen Grannen, deren Körner besonders zum Bierbrauen und zu Futterzwecken verwendet werden
- 2Frucht von ^([1])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gerste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ins Bier dürfen nur Gerste, Wasser und Hopfen.
„Anfangs gründeten sie nur viele kleine Siedlungen, deren Bewohner Rinder züchteten und Gerste anbauten.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egrste
- gerrste
- gerset
- gersste
- gerstte
- gertse
- gesrte
- ggerste
- greste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gerste - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Gerste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).