gila
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The verdict
“gila” is uncommon German (frequency #90,333 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,333
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verrückt, geisteskrank
Corpus desk
Index DE-gila · gila · German
gila · rank #90,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,333
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gieriger
Nearest frequency peer: gieriger (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „gila“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gewässersch…
Gewässerschutz
9,672 corpus weight
- gezüchtete
gezüchtete
9,671 corpus weight
- gieriger
gieriger
9,669 corpus weight
- gila
gila
9,668 corpus weight
- Gitarristin
Gitarristin
9,666 corpus weight
- glamourösen
glamourösen
9,665 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gila“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gila“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gila is uncommon German at frequency #90,333 among 5,117 “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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