girls

/[ɡɜː(ɹ)lz]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,600

in German word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

girls is aGermannoun. It means: Plural des Substantivs girl Pronounced [ɡɜː(ɹ)lz]. It ranks #5,600 in German word frequency. Often confused with GIS and Gras.

Key facts for girls
PropertyValue
Headwordgirls
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ɡɜː(ɹ)lz]
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,600
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of girls in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for girls is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡɜː(ɹ)lz]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,600 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plural des Substantivs girl".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for girls, with forms such as "ggirls", "gilrs", and "girlls". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "GIS", "Gras", "Gros", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 girls, spelled G-I-R-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs girl

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggirls,gilrs,girlls,girlss,girrls,girsl,grils,igrls

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for girls

Misspelling Variants of "girls"

ggirls6gilrs5girlls6girlss6girrls6girsl5grils5igrls5
Misspelling Variants of "girls"

Frequency rank: #5,600 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "girls"?
"girls" is spelled G-I-R-L-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡɜː(ɹ)lz].
What does "girls" mean?
As a noun, "girls" means: Plural des Substantivs girl
What words are commonly confused with "girls"?
"girls" is commonly confused with "GIS", "Gras", "Gros". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "girls"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "girls" is [ɡɜː(ɹ)lz]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "girls" come from?
"girls" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter G in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.