Geschichtenerzähler
[ɡəˈʃɪçtn̩ʔɛɐ̯ˌt͡sɛːlɐ]
The verdict
“Geschichtenerzähler” is uncommon German (frequency #58,810 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,810
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die Geschichten erzählt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geschichtenerzähler |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃɪçtn̩ʔɛɐ̯ˌt͡sɛːlɐ] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Frequency rank | #58,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Geschichtenerzähler” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Geschichtenerzähler is uncommon German at frequency #58,810 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈʃɪçtn̩ʔɛɐ̯ˌt͡sɛːlɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die Geschichten erzählt".
Geschichtenerzähler doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Geschichtenerzähler, spelled G-E-S-C-H-I-C-H-T-E-N-E-R-Z-Ä-H-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die Geschichten erzählt
This word in other languages
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 “Geschichtenerzähler”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-S-C-H-I-C-H-T-E-N-E-R-Z-Ä-H-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡəˈʃɪçtn̩ʔɛɐ̯ˌt͡sɛːlɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.