gogol
[ɡɔɡɔl]
The verdict
“gogol” is uncommon German (frequency #62,467 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,467
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bescheuert, bekloppt, behämmert, beknackt, gaga, plemplem, meschugge
Corpus desk
Index DE-gogol · gogol · German
gogol · rank #62,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,467
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gleiter
Nearest frequency peer: Gleiter (-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 „gogol“
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 „gogol“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gogol |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡɔɡɔl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gogol“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gogol is uncommon German at frequency #62,467 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡɔɡɔl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "bescheuert, bekloppt, behämmert, beknackt, gaga, plemplem, meschugge".
No misspelling variants are generated for gogol in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 gogol, spelled G-O-G-O-L.
Definition
- 1bescheuert, bekloppt, behämmert, beknackt, gaga, plemplem, meschugge
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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