Geschlechterkunde
[ɡəˈʃlɛçtɐˌkʊndə]
The verdict
“Geschlechterkunde” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wissenschaftliche Disziplin, die sich mit der Erforschung der Abstammung von Personen oder Personengruppen befasst
Corpus desk
Index DE-geschlechterkunde · Geschlechterkunde · German
Geschlechterkunde · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geschlechterkunde |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃlɛçtɐˌkʊndə] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Geschlechterkunde“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Geschlechterkunde is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈʃlɛçtɐˌkʊndə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "wissenschaftliche Disziplin, die sich mit der Erforschung der Abstammung von Personen oder Personengruppen befasst".
Geschlechterkunde doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Geschlechterkunde, spelled G-E-S-C-H-L-E-C-H-T-E-R-K-U-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1wissenschaftliche Disziplin, die sich mit der Erforschung der Abstammung von Personen oder Personengruppen befasst
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.