Gleiter
[ˈɡlaɪ̯tɐ]
The verdict
“Gleiter” is uncommon German (frequency #62,466 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,466
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Luftfahrzeug, das ohne Motorunterstützung fliegt
Corpus desk
Index DE-gleiter · Gleiter · German
Gleiter · rank #62,466 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,466
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gogol
Nearest frequency peer: gogol (+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 „Gleiter“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- gewöhn
gewöhn
37,538 corpus weight
- geöffnetem
geöffnetem
37,537 corpus weight
- Gleiter
Gleiter
37,535 corpus weight
- gogol
gogol
37,534 corpus weight
- goldgelb
goldgelb
37,533 corpus weight
- Goldschmiede
Goldschmiede
37,532 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gleiter“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gleiter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡlaɪ̯tɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gleiter“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gleiter is uncommon German at frequency #62,466 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡlaɪ̯tɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Gleiter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gleiter, spelled G-L-E-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Luftfahrzeug, das ohne Motorunterstützung fliegt
- 2Lebewesen, das zeitweilig ohne Flügelschlag fliegen kann
- 3Wasserfahrzeug, bei dem der vordere Teil des Schiffskörpers bei der Fahrt oberhalb der Wasseroberfläche liegt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gleiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dabei stellte er fest, dass durch geringfügige Bewegung des vorne liegenden Höhenruders der Gleiter gut zu steuern war.“
„Mit Flair 30, einem superleichten Gleiter (36 Kilogramm), schlug der Erfinder schließlich eine Brücke zwischen Segelflug und Drachenflug.“
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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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