geschert
[ɡəˈʃeːɐ̯t]
The verdict
“geschert” is uncommon German (frequency #88,993 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,993
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ohne Manieren oder unverschämt
Corpus desk
Index DE-geschert · geschert · German
geschert · rank #88,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,993
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH geschalteten
Nearest frequency peer: geschalteten (-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 „geschert“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gesamtnote
Gesamtnote
11,011 corpus weight
- geschalteten
geschalteten
11,009 corpus weight
- geschert
geschert
11,008 corpus weight
- geschossenen
geschossenen
11,007 corpus weight
- gespannter
gespannter
11,006 corpus weight
- gesteuerter
gesteuerter
11,005 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „geschert“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geschert |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃeːɐ̯t] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „geschert“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
geschert is uncommon German at frequency #88,993 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡəˈʃeːɐ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
geschert doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is geschert, spelled G-E-S-C-H-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1ohne Manieren oder unverschämt
- 2vom Land stammend, provinziell, mit niedrigem geistigen oder kulturellen Niveau
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how geschert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das war jetzt wirklich geschert von dir, auch noch das letzte Stück Kuchen zu essen, obwohl du wusstest, dass Peter noch kein Stück bekommen hatte.
„Heute ist der Tag, an welchem Christus, der Herr, hinaufgefahren ist in jene lichten Höhen, in denen die ewige Seligkeit wohnt, die wir euch erlangen sollen. Aber pfeifen tun wir euch was, ihr gescherten Bauernlümmel! Seit Jahren erhalten wir von euch keine Eier, Butter, Schmalz, oder was sonst euere Dankbarkeit bezeuge.“
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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