GIS
[ˌɡeːʔiːˈʔɛs]
The verdict
“GIS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,434) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,434
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Geographisches Informationssystem, Geoinformationssystem
Corpus desk
Index DE-gis · GIS · German
GIS · rank #26,434 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,434
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH giro
Nearest frequency peer: giro (-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 „GIS“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- gewaltsame
gewaltsame
73,570 corpus weight
- Gewerbesteu…
Gewerbesteuer
73,569 corpus weight
- giro
giro
73,568 corpus weight
- GIS
GIS
73,567 corpus weight
- Gitarristen
Gitarristen
73,566 corpus weight
- gleichgesch…
gleichgeschlechtliche
73,565 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „GIS“ 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 | GIS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˌɡeːʔiːˈʔɛs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „GIS“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GIS is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GM", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˌɡeːʔiːˈʔɛs]. Frequency #26,434 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Geographisches Informationssystem, Geoinformationssystem".
No misspelling variants are generated for GIS in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is GIS, spelled G-I-S.
Definition
- 1Geographisches Informationssystem, Geoinformationssystem
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how GIS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das GIS ist schon auf dem Rechner installiert.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).