gerti
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The verdict
“gerti” is uncommon German (frequency #73,536 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,536
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Flüssigkeiten) zu sich nehmen; trinken
Corpus desk
Index DE-gerti · gerti · German
gerti · rank #73,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,536
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gerson
Nearest frequency peer: Gerson (-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 „gerti“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- geltender
geltender
26,469 corpus weight
- Gemische
Gemische
26,468 corpus weight
- Gemüsehändl…
Gemüsehändler
26,467 corpus weight
- Gerson
Gerson
26,466 corpus weight
- gerti
gerti
26,465 corpus weight
- geschmacklo…
geschmacklosen
26,461 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gerti“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gerti |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gerti“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gerti is uncommon German at frequency #73,536 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for gerti in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 gerti, spelled G-E-R-T-I.
Definition
- 1(Flüssigkeiten) zu sich nehmen; trinken
- 2Alkohol konsumieren; trinken
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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