gescheitert
[ɡəˈʃaɪ̯tɐt]
The verdict
“gescheitert” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,595. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,595
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erfolglos geblieben, etwas nicht verwirklicht, ein Ziel nicht erreicht
Corpus desk
Index DE-gescheitert · gescheitert · German
gescheitert · rank #5,595 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,595
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gesetzes
Nearest frequency peer: Gesetzes (+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 „gescheitert“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gelben
gelben
94,409 corpus weight
- gemütlich
gemütlich
94,408 corpus weight
- gescheitert
gescheitert
94,406 corpus weight
- Gesetzes
Gesetzes
94,405 corpus weight
- gesetzliche
gesetzliche
94,404 corpus weight
- gesorgt
gesorgt
94,403 corpus weight
What this shows „gescheitert“ 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 | gescheitert |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃaɪ̯tɐt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #5,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gescheitert“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around gescheitert (IPA [ɡəˈʃaɪ̯tɐt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,595 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "erfolglos geblieben, etwas nicht verwirklicht, ein Ziel nicht erreicht".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for gescheitert, with forms such as "egscheitert", "gecsheitert", and "gesccheitert". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "geschmiert", "gescheites", "gescheiterte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is gescheitert, spelled G-E-S-C-H-E-I-T-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1erfolglos geblieben, etwas nicht verwirklicht, ein Ziel nicht erreicht
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gescheitert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Diese Räume steckten voller gescheiterter Träume“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egscheitert
- gecsheitert
- gesccheitert
- gescehitert
- gescheietrt
- gescheiterrt
- gescheitertt
- gescheitetr
- gescheitret
- gescheittert
- geschetiert
- geschheitert
- geschietert
- geshceitert
- gesscheitert
- ggescheitert
- gsecheitert
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gescheitert - 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 "gescheitert", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).