Gigolo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#74,635
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Gigolo is aGermannoun. It means: Angestellter eines Tanzlokals, einer Tanzschule, der sich als Tanzpartner den weiblichen Gästen anbietet Pronounced [ˈʒiːɡolo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gigolo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʒiːɡolo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gigolo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʒiːɡolo]. Corpus data places it at rank #74,635 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Gigolo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Gigolo, spelled G-I-G-O-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Angestellter eines Tanzlokals, einer Tanzschule, der sich als Tanzpartner den weiblichen Gästen anbietet
- 2(jüngerer, eleganter, in der Halbwelt verkehrender) Mann, der eine intime, zumeist sexuell geprägte, längerfristige Beziehung mit einer zumeist älteren (gut betuchten) Dame hat und sich von dieser aushalten lässt
- 3(jüngerer oder älterer) charmanter, gutaussehender, lebemännischer Mann, der bei Frauen besonders gut ankommt und daher viele Liebschaften hat
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Frequency rank: #74,635 in German
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