Gesellschafter
Letters
14 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,032
in German word usage
Misspellings
21
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Gesellschafter is aGermannoun. It means: Eigentümer beziehungsweise Miteigentümer einer Gesellschaft (eines Unternehmens) Pronounced [ɡəˈzɛlʃaftɐ]. It ranks #9,032 in German word frequency. Often confused with Gesellschaftern and Gesellschaft.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gesellschafter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈzɛlʃaftɐ] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #9,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gesellschafter is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈzɛlʃaftɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,032 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 21 documented wrong-spelling variants for Gesellschafter, with forms such as "egsellschafter", "geesllschafter", and "gesellcshafter". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Gesellschaftern", "Gesellschaft", "Gesellschaften", 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 Gesellschafter, spelled G-E-S-E-L-L-S-C-H-A-F-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Eigentümer beziehungsweise Miteigentümer einer Gesellschaft (eines Unternehmens)
- 2Person, die in der Gesellschaft gut ankommt und sich gut in Gesellschaft verhält und meistens als angenehmer und unterhaltsamer Gesprächspartner geschätzt wird
- 3Mann, der sich (gegen Bezahlung) als Liebhaber oder Begleiter einer Frau anbietet
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egsellschafter,geesllschafter,gesellcshafter,gesellscahfter,gesellscchafter,gesellschafetr,gesellschaffter,gesellschafterr,gesellschaftre,gesellschaftter,gesellschatfer,gesellschfater,gesellschhafter,gesellshcafter,gesellsschafter,geselschafter,geselslchafter,geslelschafter,gessellschafter,ggesellschafter,gseellschafter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Gesellschafter
Misspelling Variants of "Gesellschafter"
Frequency rank: #9,032 in German
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Nearby German words
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