GIF
[ɡɪf]
The verdict
“GIF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,921) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,921
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grafikformat für Bilder (auch mehrere Bilder in Reihe) mit Farbpalette
Corpus desk
Index DE-gif · GIF · German
GIF · rank #17,921 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,921
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gezielten
Nearest frequency peer: gezielten (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „GIF“
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82,081 corpus weight
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82,080 corpus weight
- Goethes
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82,079 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „GIF“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | GIF |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡɪf] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „GIF“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GIF is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GM", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɡɪf]. Frequency #17,921 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Grafikformat für Bilder (auch mehrere Bilder in Reihe) mit Farbpalette".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for GIF, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GM", "gs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 GIF, spelled G-I-F.
Definition
- 1Grafikformat für Bilder (auch mehrere Bilder in Reihe) mit Farbpalette
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how GIF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Im Internet wird alles immer schneller, größer und bunter. Doch mit die größten Erfolge feiert ausgerechnet das uralte Dateiformat GIF – und revolutioniert ganz nebenbei auch noch die Kunstszene. Wie ist das möglich?"
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); 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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