Geschlechtsteil
[ɡəˈʃlɛçt͡sˌtaɪ̯l]
The verdict
“Geschlechtsteil” is an uncommon German word, ranked #75,703 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #75,703
- frequency rank, German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Körperteil, das hauptsächlich der Fortpflanzung dient; äußeres Geschlechtsorgan
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geschlechtsteil |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃlɛçt͡sˌtaɪ̯l] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #75,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Geschlechtsteil” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Geschlechtsteil is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈʃlɛçt͡sˌtaɪ̯l]. Corpus data places it at rank #75,703 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Körperteil, das hauptsächlich der Fortpflanzung dient; äußeres Geschlechtsorgan".
Geschlechtsteil has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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 carries no recorded etymology, 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 Geschlechtsteil, spelled G-E-S-C-H-L-E-C-H-T-S-T-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1Körperteil, das hauptsächlich der Fortpflanzung dient; äußeres Geschlechtsorgan
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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 “Geschlechtsteil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-S-C-H-L-E-C-H-T-S-T-E-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.