Gerüchen
[ɡəˈʁʏçn̩]
The verdict
“Gerüchen” is uncommon German (frequency #79,210 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,210
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Plural des Substantivs Geruch
Corpus desk
Index DE-geruchen · Gerüchen · German
Gerüchen · rank #79,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,210
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gerötet
Nearest frequency peer: gerötet (-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 „Gerüchen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gernsheim
Gernsheim
20,794 corpus weight
- gerötet
gerötet
20,792 corpus weight
- Gerüchen
Gerüchen
20,791 corpus weight
- Gesamtschau
Gesamtschau
20,790 corpus weight
- geschichtst…
geschichtsträchtigen
20,789 corpus weight
- geschultes
geschultes
20,788 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gerüchen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gerüchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʁʏçn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gerüchen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gerüchen is uncommon German at frequency #79,210 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈʁʏçn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dativ Plural des Substantivs Geruch".
Gerüchen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Gerüchen, spelled G-E-R-Ü-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural des Substantivs Geruch
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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