gila
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The verdict
“gila” is uncommon German (frequency #90,333 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,333
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - verrückt, geisteskrank
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gila |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gila” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gila is uncommon German at frequency #90,333 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "verrückt, geisteskrank".
gila doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 gila, spelled G-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1verrückt, geisteskrank
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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Using “gila”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-I-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.