Gigant
[ɡiˈɡant]
The verdict
“Gigant” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #43,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,926
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine der Gestalten der griechischen Mythologie (Titanen), die die olympischen Götter (Olympier) stürzen wollten
Corpus desk
Index DE-gigant · Gigant · German
Gigant · rank #43,926 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,926
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gevögelt
Nearest frequency peer: gevögelt (-2 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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Gigant“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- getwittert
getwittert
56,078 corpus weight
- gevögelt
gevögelt
56,077 corpus weight
- Gigant
Gigant
56,075 corpus weight
- Goldbarren
Goldbarren
56,073 corpus weight
- Goldes
Goldes
56,072 corpus weight
- Goldstein
Goldstein
56,071 corpus weight
What this shows „Gigant“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Gigant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡiˈɡant] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gigant“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Gigant (IPA [ɡiˈɡant]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,926 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gigant, with forms such as "ggigant", "giagnt", and "gigannt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "grant", "Giganten", "giant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gigant, spelled G-I-G-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1eine der Gestalten der griechischen Mythologie (Titanen), die die olympischen Götter (Olympier) stürzen wollten
- 2übergroßer Mensch
- 3etwas oder jemand mit überragenden Eigenschaften beziehungsweise Fähigkeiten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gigant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In der griechischen Mythologie gab es auch Giganten.
„In Paris soll 1571 ein Gigant aus Siebenbürgen, der sich in einer Mietwohnung bewundern ließ, regen Zulauf gehabt haben.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggigant
- giagnt
- gigannt
- gigantt
- gigatn
- giggant
- gignat
- iggant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gigant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).