gesellte

[ɡəˈzɛltə]

/[ɡəˈzɛltə]/ verb

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The verdict

“gesellte” is uncommon German (frequency #51,354 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,354
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs gesellen

Corpus desk

Index DE-gesellte · gesellte · German

gesellte · rank #51,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,354
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH gespeicherte

Nearest frequency peer: gespeicherte (+1 rank slots)

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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „gesellte“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gesellte“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for gesellte
PropertyValue
Headwordgesellte
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ɡəˈzɛltə]
Letters8
Frequency rank#51,354
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „gesellte“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.geselltefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „gespeicherte“ (#51,355), „Gerichtshofes“ (#51,352), „gestreckten“ (#51,356). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „gesellte“ bei #51,354. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

gesellte is uncommon German at frequency #51,354 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɡəˈzɛltə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for gesellte in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 gesellte, spelled G-E-S-E-L-L-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs gesellen
  2. 2
    1. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs gesellen
  3. 3
    3. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs gesellen
  4. 4
    3. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs gesellen

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gesellte"?
"gesellte" is spelled G-E-S-E-L-L-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡəˈzɛltə].
What does "gesellte" mean?
As a verb, "gesellte" means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs gesellen
How do you pronounce "gesellte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gesellte" is [ɡəˈzɛltə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gesellte" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gesellte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

glitzern#51,365gefleckt#51,338gechillt#51,336Gebärden#51,335

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list