Geschäftsführerin
[ɡəˈʃɛft͡sˌfyːʁəʁɪn]
The verdict
“Geschäftsführerin” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #19,241 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #19,241
- frequency rank, German
- 17
- letters
- 28
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — leitende Angestellte einer Personenvereinigung, meist eines Unternehmens
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 | Geschäftsführerin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃɛft͡sˌfyːʁəʁɪn] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #19,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 28 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Geschäftsführerin” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Geschäftsführerin is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈʃɛft͡sˌfyːʁəʁɪn]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,241 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "leitende Angestellte einer Personenvereinigung, meist eines Unternehmens".
Our generated misspelling index lists 28 likely wrong-spelling variants for Geschäftsführerin, with forms such as "egschäftsführerin", "gecshäftsführerin", and "gescchäftsführerin". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Geschäftsführers", "Geschäftsführer", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Geschäftsführerin, spelled G-E-S-C-H-Ä-F-T-S-F-Ü-H-R-E-R-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1leitende Angestellte einer Personenvereinigung, meist eines Unternehmens
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egschäftsführerin,gecshäftsführerin,gescchäftsführerin,geschfätsführerin,geschhäftsführerin,geschäfftsführerin,geschäfstführerin,geschäftfsührerin,geschäftsfführerin,geschäftsfhürerin,geschäftsfüherrin,geschäftsfühhrerin,geschäftsführeirn,geschäftsführerinn,geschäftsführerni,geschäftsführerrin,geschäftsführrein,geschäftsführrerin,geschäftsfürherin,geschäftssführerin,geschäftsüfhrerin,geschäfttsführerin,geschätfsführerin,gescähftsführerin,geshcäftsführerin,gesschäftsführerin,ggeschäftsführerin,gsechäftsführerin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Geschäftsführerin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Geschäftsführerin"
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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Using “Geschäftsführerin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-S-C-H-Ä-F-T-S-F-Ü-H-R-E-R-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡəˈʃɛft͡sˌfyːʁəʁɪn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Geschäftsführers” - see the side-by-side comparison. Geschäftsführerin vs Geschäftsführers
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