gestehen
[ɡəˈʃteːən]
The verdict
“gestehen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,859. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,859
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas offen zugeben; ein Geständnis ablegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gestehen · gestehen · German
gestehen · rank #10,859 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,859
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Geschlechts
Nearest frequency peer: Geschlechts (-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 „gestehen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gefesselt
gefesselt
89,145 corpus weight
- gelungene
gelungene
89,144 corpus weight
- Geschlechts
Geschlechts
89,143 corpus weight
- gestehen
gestehen
89,142 corpus weight
- Gitter
Gitter
89,141 corpus weight
- grenzt
grenzt
89,140 corpus weight
What this shows „gestehen“ 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 | gestehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃteːən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gestehen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around gestehen (IPA [ɡəˈʃteːən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,859 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "etwas offen zugeben; ein Geständnis ablegen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for gestehen, with forms such as "egstehen", "gesethen", and "gesstehen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Gesten", "gestern", "gesteht", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is gestehen, spelled G-E-S-T-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas offen zugeben; ein Geständnis ablegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gestehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Indizien sind klar, der Tatverdächtige muss den Mord nur noch gestehen.
Er gestand ihr seine Zuneigung.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egstehen
- gesethen
- gesstehen
- gesteehn
- gestehenn
- gestehhen
- gestehne
- gestheen
- gesttehen
- getsehen
- ggestehen
- gsetehen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gestehen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "gestehen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).