Gevatterschaft
The verdict
“Gevatterschaft” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: veraltet für Patenschaft: Patenschaft heißt, für jemanden – besonders für dessen Erziehung – Sorge zu übernehmen. Die wörtliche Bedeutung meint: Jemand anderer, Mit-Vater im Geiste, also dessen gei...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gevatterschaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈfatɐʃaft] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gevatterschaft” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gevatterschaft is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˈfatɐʃaft]. 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: "veraltet für Patenschaft: Patenschaft heißt, für jemanden – besonders für dessen Erziehung – Sorge zu übernehmen. Die wörtliche Bedeutung meint: Jemand anderer, Mit-Vater im Geiste, also dessen gei...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Gevatterschaft in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 Gevatterschaft, spelled G-E-V-A-T-T-E-R-S-C-H-A-F-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1veraltet für Patenschaft: Patenschaft heißt, für jemanden – besonders für dessen Erziehung – Sorge zu übernehmen. Die wörtliche Bedeutung meint: Jemand anderer, Mit-Vater im Geiste, also dessen geistiger Vater zu sein. So kann man beispielsweise die Patenschaft für ein Kind im Ausland übernehmen, indem man besonders seine Erziehung durch finanzielle oder anderweitige Unterstützung fördert (vergleiche das mittellateinische Substantiv compater (deutsch: Gevatter))
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.
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Using “Gevatterschaft”
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- The one correct German spelling is G-E-V-A-T-T-E-R-S-C-H-A-F-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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