Gin
[d͡ʒɪn]
The verdict
“Gin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,157) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,157
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spirituose mit Wacholder, Hauptbestandteil vieler Cocktails, besonders des Martinis
Corpus desk
Index DE-gin · Gin · German
Gin · rank #13,157 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,157
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gewöhnliche
Nearest frequency peer: gewöhnliche (-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 „Gin“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- getauft
getauft
86,847 corpus weight
- getraut
getraut
86,846 corpus weight
- gewöhnliche
gewöhnliche
86,845 corpus weight
- Gin
Gin
86,844 corpus weight
- Gräber
Gräber
86,842 corpus weight
- Guthaben
Guthaben
86,841 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Gin“ 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 | Gin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d͡ʒɪn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Gin“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Gin is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GM", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [d͡ʒɪn]. Frequency #13,157 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Spirituose mit Wacholder, Hauptbestandteil vieler Cocktails, besonders des Martinis".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Gin 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct German form is Gin, spelled G-I-N.
Definition
- 1Spirituose mit Wacholder, Hauptbestandteil vieler Cocktails, besonders des Martinis
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gin wird aus beliebigen stärkehaltigen Ausgangsstoffen gebrannt, meist Getreide oder Melasse.
„Es war absolut nichts los, und so blieb ihm nicht viel anderes übrig, als Gin zu trinken.“
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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