Gig
[ɡɪk]
The verdict
“Gig” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,223) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,223
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - musikalischer Auftritt, ein Konzert vor Publikum gegen Bezahlung
Corpus desk
Index DE-gig · Gig · German
Gig · rank #28,223 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,223
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gewohnte
Nearest frequency peer: gewohnte (-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 „Gig“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- gestörte
gestörte
71,781 corpus weight
- getrocknete
getrocknete
71,780 corpus weight
- gewohnte
gewohnte
71,779 corpus weight
- Gig
Gig
71,778 corpus weight
- glatter
glatter
71,777 corpus weight
- gleichaltri…
gleichaltrigen
71,776 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Gig“ 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 | Gig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡɪk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Gig“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Gig is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GM", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɡɪk]. Frequency #28,223 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Gloss: "musikalischer Auftritt, ein Konzert vor Publikum gegen Bezahlung".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gig in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Gig, spelled G-I-G.
Definition
- 1musikalischer Auftritt, ein Konzert vor Publikum gegen Bezahlung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich geh später noch auf einen „Gig“.
„Sein Agent vermittelte ihm einige Gigs, die seine Kasse etwas auffüllten; alles nur Broterwerb, künstlerisch uninteressant.“
Synonyms
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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