God
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,503
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
God is aGermannoun. It means: Gott in Sinne des einen monotheistischen Gottes Pronounced [ɡɒd]. Often confused with gs and GV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | God |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡɒd] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for God is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡɒd]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,503 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gott in Sinne des einen monotheistischen Gottes".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for God in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gs", "GV", "gz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is God, spelled G-O-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gott in Sinne des einen monotheistischen Gottes
Frequency rank: #12,503 in German
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