Gesetz
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,058
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
Gesetz is aGermannoun. It means: Regel, die ein Gesetzgeber in einem bestimmten Verfahren erlässt und die die jeweilig Untergebenen zu befolgen haben Pronounced [ɡəˈzɛt͡s]. It ranks #1,058 in German word frequency. Often confused with geste and gesetzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gesetz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈzɛt͡s] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gesetz is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈzɛt͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,058 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Gesetz, with forms such as "egsetz", "geestz", and "gesettz". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "geste", "gesetzt", "Gesetze", 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 Gesetz, spelled G-E-S-E-T-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Regel, die ein Gesetzgeber in einem bestimmten Verfahren erlässt und die die jeweilig Untergebenen zu befolgen haben
- 2durch Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen erkannter Zusammenhang, der sich als Formel darstellen lässt und allen Nachprüfungen standhält; Hypothese, die überprüft ist und dabei nicht widerlegt wurde
- 3Regel, die durch Beobachtung und empirische Verallgemeinerung entstanden ist
- 4Richtlinie, Richtschnur
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egsetz,geestz,gesettz,gesetzz,gesezt,gessetz,gestez,ggesetz,gseetz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Gesetz"
Frequency rank: #1,058 in German
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