Gossip
[ˈɡɔsɪp]
The verdict
“Gossip” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,781. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,781
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gesellschaftliches Gespräch über triviale, oft auf Gerüchten beruhende Themen, die meist nicht anwesende Personen betreffen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gossip · Gossip · German
Gossip · rank #38,781 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,781
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gleichschaltu…
Nearest frequency peer: Gleichschaltung (-2 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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Gossip“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Gewehren
Gewehren
61,226 corpus weight
- Gewürz
Gewürz
61,225 corpus weight
- Giacomo
Giacomo
61,224 corpus weight
- Gleichschal…
Gleichschaltung
61,222 corpus weight
- Gossip
Gossip
61,220 corpus weight
- Grünland
Grünland
61,214 corpus weight
What this shows „Gossip“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Gossip |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡɔsɪp] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gossip“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Gossip (IPA [ˈɡɔsɪp]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,781 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "gesellschaftliches Gespräch über triviale, oft auf Gerüchten beruhende Themen, die meist nicht anwesende Personen betreffen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gossip, with forms such as "ggossip", "gosip", and "gosisp". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "goss", "Gassi", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Gossip, spelled G-O-S-S-I-P.
Definition
- 1gesellschaftliches Gespräch über triviale, oft auf Gerüchten beruhende Themen, die meist nicht anwesende Personen betreffen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gossip appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dann fliegen sie aus, – von einem Schaufenster zum andern, von einem Geschäft zum andern, – sie drangsalieren die Verkäufer, ohne die Absicht, etwas zu kaufen, sie erzählen den letzten Klatsch, Gossip genannt, den die Zeitungen ihnen servieren, und sie haben bei ihren Promenaden die einfache Hierarchie des Geldes; die reichste marschiert in der Mitte, zw…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggossip
- gosip
- gosisp
- gossipp
- gosspi
- goßip
- gsosip
- ogssip
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gossip - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gossip", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).