Geschlecht
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,192
in German word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
Geschlecht is aGermannoun. It means: die Eigenschaft höherer Lebewesen, männlich oder weiblich zu sein (einschließlich Misch- oder Zwischenformen) Pronounced [ɡəˈʃlɛçt]. It ranks #3,192 in German word frequency. Often confused with geschwächt and geschmeckt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geschlecht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃlɛçt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Geschlecht is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈʃlɛçt]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,192 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for Geschlecht, with forms such as "egschlecht", "gecshlecht", and "gescchlecht". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "geschwächt", "geschmeckt", "geschluckt", and more, 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 Geschlecht, spelled G-E-S-C-H-L-E-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Eigenschaft höherer Lebewesen, männlich oder weiblich zu sein (einschließlich Misch- oder Zwischenformen)
- 2die Gruppe entweder aller männlicher Menschen oder aller weiblicher
- 3Geschlechtsteil
- 4Gruppe von Lebewesen, die sich ausreichend ähnlich sind, um untereinander fortpflanzungsfähig zu sein (Art) oder Gruppe nah verwandter Arten (Gattung) – insbesondere das Menschengeschlecht (auch in der Mythologie sowie übertragen von Dingen oder Abstrakta)
- 5große, oft vornehme oder bedeutende Familie über mehrere Generationen hinweg
- 6grammatische Kategorie von Hauptwörtern, Beiwörtern, Geschlechtswörtern und Fürwörtern (Substantiven, Adjektiven, Artikeln, Pronomen), also von Nennwörtern (Nomen; im traditionellen weiteren Sinn)
- 7Gesamtheit von Menschen, die gleichzeitig derselben Altersgruppe angehören
- 8eine topologische Invariante, die zur Klassifikation von algebraischen Flächen dient
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egschlecht,gecshlecht,gescchlecht,geschelcht,geschhlecht,geschlceht,geschleccht,geschlechht,geschlechtt,geschlecth,geschlehct,geschllecht,gesclhecht,geshclecht,gesschlecht,ggeschlecht,gsechlecht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Geschlecht
Misspelling Variants of "Geschlecht"
Frequency rank: #3,192 in German
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