Goldrausch
[ˈɡɔltˌʁaʊ̯ʃ]
The verdict
“Goldrausch” is uncommon German (frequency #66,276 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,276
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Zeit, in der viele Menschen an einen Ort ziehen, um dort nach Gold zu suchen, meist in gegenseitiger Konkurrenz und mit großer Gier
Corpus desk
Index DE-goldrausch · Goldrausch · German
Goldrausch · rank #66,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,276
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Goofy
Nearest frequency peer: Goofy (+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 „Goldrausch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- gleichgesch…
gleichgeschaltet
33,728 corpus weight
- Gletschers
Gletschers
33,727 corpus weight
- Goldrausch
Goldrausch
33,725 corpus weight
- Goofy
Goofy
33,724 corpus weight
- Gottesstaat
Gottesstaat
33,723 corpus weight
- Graphiken
Graphiken
33,722 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Goldrausch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Goldrausch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡɔltˌʁaʊ̯ʃ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Goldrausch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Goldrausch is uncommon German at frequency #66,276 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡɔltˌʁaʊ̯ʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Zeit, in der viele Menschen an einen Ort ziehen, um dort nach Gold zu suchen, meist in gegenseitiger Konkurrenz und mit großer Gier".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Goldrausch, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Goldrausch, spelled G-O-L-D-R-A-U-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1eine Zeit, in der viele Menschen an einen Ort ziehen, um dort nach Gold zu suchen, meist in gegenseitiger Konkurrenz und mit großer Gier
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Goldrausch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Wilde Westen zeichnete sich unter anderem durch den Goldrausch aus.
„Der Goldrausch war ausgebrochen und zog ganze Karawanen an Planwagen in die Ferne der Sierra Nevada und nach Alaska.“
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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