Goldstandard
[ˈɡɔltˌʃtandaʁt]
The verdict
“Goldstandard” is uncommon German (frequency #70,330 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,330
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Finanzsystem, bei dem die vorhandene Geldmenge durch Gold gedeckt ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-goldstandard · Goldstandard · German
Goldstandard · rank #70,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,330
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH goat
Nearest frequency peer: goat (-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 „Goldstandard“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- glamouröse
glamouröse
29,675 corpus weight
- glaubhafte
glaubhafte
29,674 corpus weight
- goat
goat
29,672 corpus weight
- Goldstandard
Goldstandard
29,671 corpus weight
- grata
grata
29,668 corpus weight
- greifbaren
greifbaren
29,667 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Goldstandard“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Goldstandard |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡɔltˌʃtandaʁt] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #70,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Goldstandard“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Goldstandard is uncommon German at frequency #70,330 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡɔltˌʃtandaʁt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Finanzsystem, bei dem die vorhandene Geldmenge durch Gold gedeckt ist".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Goldstandard, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Goldstandard, spelled G-O-L-D-S-T-A-N-D-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Finanzsystem, bei dem die vorhandene Geldmenge durch Gold gedeckt ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Goldstandard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Englands Vormachtstellung im Wirtschafts- und Finanzsektor führt dazu, dass sich die Währungen der übrigen Handelsnationen gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts zunehmend an England und damit am Goldstandard orientieren.“
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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