God
[ɡɒd]
The verdict
“God” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,503) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,503
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gott in Sinne des einen monotheistischen Gottes
Corpus desk
Index DE-god · God · German
God · rank #12,503 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,503
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH geweint
Nearest frequency peer: geweint (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „God“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- gerückt
gerückt
87,501 corpus weight
- geschützten
geschützten
87,500 corpus weight
- geweint
geweint
87,499 corpus weight
- God
God
87,498 corpus weight
- haften
haften
87,497 corpus weight
- Herde
Herde
87,496 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „God“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „God“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for God is neighbouring look-alikes ("gs", "GV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɡɒd]. Frequency #12,503 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Gott in Sinne des einen monotheistischen Gottes".
No generated misspelling entries exist for God in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gs", "GV", "gz", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is God, spelled G-O-D.
Definition
- 1Gott in Sinne des einen monotheistischen Gottes
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how God appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They praised God.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).