Gestänge
[ɡəˈʃtɛŋə]
The verdict
“Gestänge” is uncommon German (frequency #68,278 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,278
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Verbund von Stangen, um etwas zu stützen, zu tragen oder zusammenzuhalten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gestänge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃtɛŋə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gestänge” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Gestänge is uncommon German at frequency #68,278 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈʃtɛŋə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Gestänge in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gestänge, spelled G-E-S-T-Ä-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Verbund von Stangen, um etwas zu stützen, zu tragen oder zusammenzuhalten
- 2gelenkig verbundene, meist bewegliche Stangen zur Kraftübertragung für Schub und Zug
- 3Gleis einer Grube
Synonyms
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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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Using “Gestänge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-S-T-Ä-N-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.