Gestapo
[ɡeˈstaːpo]
The verdict
“Gestapo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,373. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,373
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polizeibehörde zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, deren Aufgabenbereich besonders die Aufdeckung von politischen Straftaten und die Verfolgung von Regimegegnern umfasste
Corpus desk
Index DE-gestapo · Gestapo · German
Gestapo · rank #15,373 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,373
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH geschmeckt
Nearest frequency peer: geschmeckt (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Gestapo“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- geradeaus
geradeaus
84,631 corpus weight
- gerichtlich
gerichtlich
84,630 corpus weight
- geschmeckt
geschmeckt
84,629 corpus weight
- Gestapo
Gestapo
84,628 corpus weight
- gewandt
gewandt
84,627 corpus weight
- Gewässern
Gewässern
84,626 corpus weight
What this shows „Gestapo“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gestapo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡeˈstaːpo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gestapo“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Gestapo (IPA [ɡeˈstaːpo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,373 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Polizeibehörde zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, deren Aufgabenbereich besonders die Aufdeckung von politischen Straftaten und die Verfolgung von Regimegegnern umfasste".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gestapo, with forms such as "egstapo", "gesatpo", and "gesstapo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Gestalt", "gestand", "Gestank", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Gestapo, spelled G-E-S-T-A-P-O.
Definition
- 1Polizeibehörde zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, deren Aufgabenbereich besonders die Aufdeckung von politischen Straftaten und die Verfolgung von Regimegegnern umfasste
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gestapo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mohr hatte schon die Freilassung Sophie Scholls angeordnet, da fand die Gestapo in der Wohnung ihres Bruders erdrückende Beweise.“
„Kapitan Klos sollte dem Publikum die intellektuelle Überlegenheit eines polnischen Spions über die deutsche SS oder die Gestapo zeigen, was bei Zuschauern unter zwölf auch gelang.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egstapo
- gesatpo
- gesstapo
- gestaop
- gestappo
- gestpao
- gesttapo
- getsapo
- ggestapo
- gsetapo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gestapo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gestapo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).