Gneis
[ɡnaɪ̯s]
The verdict
“Gneis” is uncommon German (frequency #79,241 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,241
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unter hohem Druck und bei hoher Temperatur durch Metamorphose entstandenes Gestein mit gebänderter oder gesprenkelter Textur, bestehend aus Feldspaten, Quarz und verschiedenen Glimmerarten
Corpus desk
Index DE-gneis · Gneis · German
Gneis · rank #79,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,241
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Glücksspiele
Nearest frequency peer: Glücksspiele (-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 „Gneis“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Glimmer
Glimmer
20,763 corpus weight
- Glücksritter
Glücksritter
20,762 corpus weight
- Glücksspiele
Glücksspiele
20,761 corpus weight
- Gneis
Gneis
20,760 corpus weight
- Goldschmuck
Goldschmuck
20,758 corpus weight
- Gomera
Gomera
20,757 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gneis“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gneis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡnaɪ̯s] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gneis“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gneis is uncommon German at frequency #79,241 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡnaɪ̯s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "unter hohem Druck und bei hoher Temperatur durch Metamorphose entstandenes Gestein mit gebänderter oder gesprenkelter Textur, bestehend aus Feldspaten, Quarz und verschiedenen Glimmerarten".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gneis in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Gneis, spelled G-N-E-I-S.
Definition
- 1unter hohem Druck und bei hoher Temperatur durch Metamorphose entstandenes Gestein mit gebänderter oder gesprenkelter Textur, bestehend aus Feldspaten, Quarz und verschiedenen Glimmerarten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gneis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Feldspäte und Glimmer bestimmen die Farbe und Quarz bestimmt die Abriebfestigkeit der Gneise.“
„Es war keine geringe Arbeit, vor dem Aufkleben der Etiketten die Namen der Gesteine festzustellen; die Verschiedenheit der Farben und des Korns ließ sie Tonerde und Mergel, Granit und Gneis, Quarz und Kalkstein verwechseln.“
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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