Gevatter
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#82,821
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Gevatter is aGermannoun. It means: geistiger Mitvater, Mitvater in geistlicher Verantwortung (Lehnübersetzung des lateinischen compater) Pronounced [ɡəˈfatɐ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gevatter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈfatɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gevatter is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈfatɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,821 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Gevatter 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 Gevatter, spelled G-E-V-A-T-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1geistiger Mitvater, Mitvater in geistlicher Verantwortung (Lehnübersetzung des lateinischen compater)
- 2vertrauliche Anrede für einen Gleichgesinnten
- 3Taufpate
- 4Verwandter, Freund, Bekannter, Nachbar
- 5diverse übertragene Bedeutungen wie „Gevatter Tod“
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #82,821 in German
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