gescherzt
[ɡəˈʃɛʁt͡st]
The verdict
“gescherzt” is uncommon German (frequency #87,749 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,749
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs scherzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gescherzt · gescherzt · German
gescherzt · rank #87,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,749
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gericke
Nearest frequency peer: Gericke (-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 „gescherzt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- genügsam
genügsam
12,255 corpus weight
- Gerberei
Gerberei
12,254 corpus weight
- Gericke
Gericke
12,253 corpus weight
- gescherzt
gescherzt
12,252 corpus weight
- geschundenen
geschundenen
12,251 corpus weight
- geselliges
geselliges
12,249 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gescherzt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gescherzt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃɛʁt͡st] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gescherzt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gescherzt is uncommon German at frequency #87,749 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɡəˈʃɛʁt͡st]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs scherzen".
gescherzt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is gescherzt, spelled G-E-S-C-H-E-R-Z-T.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs scherzen
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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