Gmelin
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The verdict
“Gmelin” is uncommon German (frequency #56,178 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,178
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deutschsprachiger Familienname, Nachname
Corpus desk
Index DE-gmelin · Gmelin · German
Gmelin · rank #56,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,178
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH glitzert
Nearest frequency peer: glitzert (-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 „Gmelin“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Glasflaschen
Glasflaschen
43,826 corpus weight
- Glitter
Glitter
43,825 corpus weight
- glitzert
glitzert
43,824 corpus weight
- Gmelin
Gmelin
43,823 corpus weight
- Goldmine
Goldmine
43,822 corpus weight
- Gotteshäuser
Gotteshäuser
43,820 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gmelin“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gmelin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gmelin“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gmelin is uncommon German at frequency #56,178 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "deutschsprachiger Familienname, Nachname".
No misspelling variants are generated for Gmelin in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Gmelin, spelled G-M-E-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1deutschsprachiger Familienname, Nachname
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gmelin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frau Gmelin ist ein Genie im Verkauf.
Herr Gmelin wollte uns kein Interview geben.
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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