gewinnsüchtig
[ɡəˈvɪnˌzʏçtɪç]
The verdict
“gewinnsüchtig” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - stark auf finanziellen Gewinn fixiert
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewinnsuchtig · gewinnsüchtig · German
gewinnsüchtig · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | gewinnsüchtig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvɪnˌzʏçtɪç] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gewinnsüchtig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gewinnsüchtig is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡəˈvɪnˌzʏçtɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "stark auf finanziellen Gewinn fixiert".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gewinnsüchtig, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is gewinnsüchtig, spelled G-E-W-I-N-N-S-Ü-C-H-T-I-G.
Definition
- 1stark auf finanziellen Gewinn fixiert
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gewinnsüchtig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meiner Meinung nach hat uns die gewinnsüchtige Finanzindustrie in die Krise geführt.
This word in other languages
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.