gestorben
[ɡəˈʃtɔʁbn̩]
The verdict
“gestorben” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,420
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nicht mehr lebend, verstorben
Corpus desk
Index DE-gestorben · gestorben · German
gestorben · rank #1,420 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,420
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gehalten
Nearest frequency peer: gehalten (-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 „gestorben“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- fehlen
fehlen
98,586 corpus weight
- gehalten
gehalten
98,582 corpus weight
- gestorben
gestorben
98,581 corpus weight
- Ideen
Ideen
98,579 corpus weight
- könne
könne
98,578 corpus weight
- Künstler
Künstler
98,577 corpus weight
What this shows „gestorben“ 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 | gestorben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃtɔʁbn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gestorben“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around gestorben (IPA [ɡəˈʃtɔʁbn̩]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,420 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "nicht mehr lebend, verstorben".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for gestorben, with forms such as "egstorben", "gesotrben", and "gesstorben". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "geworben", "gestörte", "gestörten", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 gestorben, spelled G-E-S-T-O-R-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1nicht mehr lebend, verstorben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gestorben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der kleine Vorplatz "Piazza del Limbo" war in früherer Zeit ein Friedhof für ungetauft gestorbene Kinder.
Hewitt ist überzeugt, daß die 1997 bei einem Verkehrsunfall gestorbene Prinzessin Diana gegen die Hochzeit von Charles und Camilla nichts einzuwenden gehabt hätte
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egstorben
- gesotrben
- gesstorben
- gestobren
- gestorbben
- gestorbenn
- gestorbne
- gestorebn
- gestorrben
- gestroben
- gesttorben
- getsorben
- ggestorben
- gsetorben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gestorben - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "gestorben", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).