Gesetzeshüter
[ɡəˈzɛt͡səsˌhyːtɐ]
The verdict
“Gesetzeshüter” is uncommon German (frequency #94,332 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,332
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mitarbeiter einer Polizeibehörde
Corpus desk
Index DE-gesetzeshuter · Gesetzeshüter · German
Gesetzeshüter · rank #94,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,332
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Geschäftszweig
Nearest frequency peer: Geschäftszweig (-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 „Gesetzeshüter“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- geräucherten
geräucherten
5,672 corpus weight
- geschuldete
geschuldete
5,671 corpus weight
- Geschäftszw…
Geschäftszweig
5,670 corpus weight
- Gesetzeshüt…
Gesetzeshüter
5,669 corpus weight
- Gesichtsfeld
Gesichtsfeld
5,668 corpus weight
- Gesims
Gesims
5,667 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gesetzeshüter“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gesetzeshüter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈzɛt͡səsˌhyːtɐ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #94,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gesetzeshüter“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gesetzeshüter is uncommon German at frequency #94,332 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈzɛt͡səsˌhyːtɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mitarbeiter einer Polizeibehörde".
Gesetzeshüter has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct German form is Gesetzeshüter, spelled G-E-S-E-T-Z-E-S-H-Ü-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mitarbeiter einer Polizeibehörde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gesetzeshüter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Doch die Gesetzeshüter bleiben brav auf ihrer Straßenseite.“
„Er war es gewiß, denn Otto von Corvins übles Machwerk hat auch zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik und zu Beginn des Dritten Reiches wiederholt den Unwillen der Gesetzeshüter hervorgerufen und wurde in den Jahren 1926 und 1934 ganz oder teilweise verboten.“
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).