Gestation

/[ɡɛstaˈt͡si̯oːn]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Gestation is aGermannoun. It means: bestimmte körperliche Verfassung einer Frau, die mit der Empfängnis beginnt und mit der Geburt des Kindes endet; Schwangerschaft Pronounced [ɡɛstaˈt͡si̯oːn].

Key facts for Gestation
PropertyValue
HeadwordGestation
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ɡɛstaˈt͡si̯oːn]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Gestation is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Gestation is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡɛstaˈt͡si̯oːn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "bestimmte körperliche Verfassung einer Frau, die mit der Empfängnis beginnt und mit der Geburt des Kindes endet; Schwangerschaft".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Gestation in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

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 Gestation, spelled G-E-S-T-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    bestimmte körperliche Verfassung einer Frau, die mit der Empfängnis beginnt und mit der Geburt des Kindes endet; Schwangerschaft

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Gestation"?
"Gestation" is spelled G-E-S-T-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡɛstaˈt͡si̯oːn].
What does "Gestation" mean?
As a noun, "Gestation" means: bestimmte körperliche Verfassung einer Frau, die mit der Empfängnis beginnt und mit der Geburt des Kindes endet; Schwangerschaft
How do you pronounce "Gestation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Gestation" is [ɡɛstaˈt͡si̯oːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Gestation" come from?
"Gestation" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.