gläserner

[ˈɡlɛːzɐnɐ]

/[ˈɡlɛːzɐnɐ]/ adj

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The verdict

“gläserner” is uncommon German (frequency #90,342 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,342
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gläsern

Corpus desk

Index DE-glaserner · gläserner · German

gläserner · rank #90,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,342
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH glücklichere

Nearest frequency peer: glücklichere (+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 „gläserner“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „gläserner“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for gläserner
PropertyValue
Headwordgläserner
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈɡlɛːzɐnɐ]
Letters9
Frequency rank#90,342
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „gläserner“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.gläsernerfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „glücklichere“ (#90,343), „Glückwünschen“ (#90,344), „Glaubensfreiheit“ (#90,339). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „gläserner“ bei #90,342. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

gläserner is uncommon German at frequency #90,342 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɡlɛːzɐnɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gläserner, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 gläserner, spelled G-L-Ä-S-E-R-N-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gläsern
  2. 2
    Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gläsern
  3. 3
    Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gläsern
  4. 4
    Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gläsern
  5. 5
    Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gläsern

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gläserner"?
"gläserner" is spelled G-L-Ä-S-E-R-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɡlɛːzɐnɐ].
What does "gläserner" mean?
As an adjective, "gläserner" means: Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs gläsern
How do you pronounce "gläserner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gläserner" is [ˈɡlɛːzɐnɐ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gläserner" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gläserner", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gotischer#90,346Gewinners#90,328Grönlands#90,364Guerillas#90,365

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list