Goldmine
[ˈɡɔltˌmiːnə]
The verdict
“Goldmine” is uncommon German (frequency #56,179 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,179
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bergwerk, in dem Gold abgebaut wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-goldmine · Goldmine · German
Goldmine · rank #56,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,179
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gmelin
Nearest frequency peer: Gmelin (-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 „Goldmine“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- 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
- Grenzübertr…
Grenzübertritt
43,819 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Goldmine“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Goldmine |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡɔltˌmiːnə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Goldmine“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Goldmine is uncommon German at frequency #56,179 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡɔltˌmiːnə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bergwerk, in dem Gold abgebaut wird".
Zero misspellings are on record for Goldmine in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Goldmine, spelled G-O-L-D-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Bergwerk, in dem Gold abgebaut wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Goldmine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Im Tauerngebirge fanden sie eine stillgelegte Goldmine.
„Sein Name war Montez, und er war der Manager der Goldmine gewesen.“
Synonyms
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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