Gott
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#467
in German word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Gott is aGermannoun. It means: übermenschliche bis übernatürliche Persönlichkeit (in Geist oder Wesen), die postuliert wird, um unerklärliche Naturphänomene zu begründen Pronounced [ɡɔt]. It ranks #467 in German word frequency. Often confused with gut and GTI.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gott |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡɔt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gott is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡɔt]. Corpus data places it at rank #467 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for Gott, with forms such as "ggott", "got", and "gtot". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gut", "GTI", "gute", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Gott, spelled G-O-T-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1übermenschliche bis übernatürliche Persönlichkeit (in Geist oder Wesen), die postuliert wird, um unerklärliche Naturphänomene zu begründen
- 2der einzige, allmächtige, unfehlbare Herr, Grund des Daseins übernatürliches Wesen
- 3eines von mehreren übernatürlichen, oft unsterblichen Wesen mit großer Macht
- 4ein in seinem Fach besonders talentierter Mensch oder ein überaus schöner Mensch
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggott,got,gtot,ogtt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Gott
Misspelling Variants of "Gott"
Frequency rank: #467 in German
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "Gott"?
What does "Gott" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "Gott"?
How do you pronounce "Gott"?
What language does "Gott" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our German index: