Gestattung
[ɡəˈʃtatʊŋ]
The verdict
“Gestattung” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Erteilung oder Vorliegen einer Erlaubnis, etwas zu tun
Corpus desk
Index DE-gestattung · Gestattung · German
Gestattung · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gestattung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃtatʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gestattung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gestattung is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˈʃtatʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Erteilung oder Vorliegen einer Erlaubnis, etwas zu tun".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gestattung, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Gestattung, spelled G-E-S-T-A-T-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Erteilung oder Vorliegen einer Erlaubnis, etwas zu tun
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gestattung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Findige Drucker und deren Verleger druckten mit Gestattung des Deutschen Reichspostamtes Ansichtspostkarten und andere Motivpostkarten […].“
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.