Gestalt
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,176
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Gestalt is aGermannoun. It means: die äußere Form, der Umriss, das Schema Pronounced [ɡəˈʃtalt]. It ranks #5,176 in German word frequency. Often confused with Gewalt and gestört.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gestalt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃtalt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gestalt is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈʃtalt]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,176 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 Gestalt, with forms such as "egstalt", "gesatlt", and "gesstalt". 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, "Gewalt", "gestört", "gesteht", 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 Gestalt, spelled G-E-S-T-A-L-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die äußere Form, der Umriss, das Schema
- 2eine unbekannte, nicht oder nur der Form, dem Umriss nach, schemenhaft zu erkennende Person
- 3herausragende Persönlichkeit, dichterische oder filmische Figur, Fantasiegeschöpf, verwandeltes Lebewesen
- 4äußerliche Beschaffenheit, der Habitus, die Figur eines Menschen
- 5fragwürdiges Individuum, eigenartiger Mensch
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egstalt,gesatlt,gesstalt,gestallt,gestaltt,gestatl,gestlat,gesttalt,getsalt,ggestalt,gsetalt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Gestalt
Misspelling Variants of "Gestalt"
Frequency rank: #5,176 in German
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