Gesicht
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#778
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Gesicht is aGermannoun. It means: die vom Haupthaar ausgesparte Vorderseite des menschlichen Kopfes, auf der die Augen, die Nase und der Mund liegen Pronounced [ɡəˈzɪçt]. It ranks #778 in German word frequency. Often confused with Gicht and Gesuch.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gesicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈzɪçt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gesicht is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈzɪçt]. Corpus data places it at rank #778 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Gesicht, with forms such as "egsicht", "geischt", and "gesciht". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Gicht", "Gesuch", "gesucht", 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 Gesicht, spelled G-E-S-I-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die vom Haupthaar ausgesparte Vorderseite des menschlichen Kopfes, auf der die Augen, die Nase und der Mund liegen
- 2Vorderseite des Kopfes, auf der die Augen, die Nase und das Maul liegen
- 3eine Person als Ganzes
- 4ein Gesichtsausdruck
- 5Ansehen und Respekt (in den Augen anderer)
- 6Anblick, Betrachtungsmöglichkeit (einer von mehreren Aspekten einer Person oder eines Gegenstandes)
- 7Offenbarung, Traumbild
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egsicht,geischt,gesciht,gesiccht,gesichht,gesichtt,gesicth,gesihct,gessicht,ggesicht,gseicht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Gesicht"
Frequency rank: #778 in German
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