giro
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,433
in German word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
giro is aGermannoun. It means: die Drehung, die Umdrehung Pronounced [ˈdʒiːro]. Often confused with go and GIS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | giro |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdʒiːro] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for giro is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdʒiːro]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,433 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for giro, with forms such as "ggiro", "girro", and "grio". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GIS", "grob", 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 giro, spelled G-I-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Drehung, die Umdrehung
- 2das Drehen
- 3die Runde
- 4die Umdrehung, die Tour
- 5die Rundreise, die Rundfahrt
- 6die Tour, die Fahrt, die Runde
- 7die Rundfahrt
- 8der Spaziergang, die Spazierfahrt
- 9der Umweg
- 10die Gesellschaft
- 11der Kreis
- 12der Ring
- 13die Umkreisung, der Umlauf
- 14der Turnus
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggiro,girro,grio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for giro
Misspelling Variants of "giro"
Frequency rank: #26,433 in German
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Nearby German words
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