Gouda
[ˈɡaʊ̯da]
The verdict
“Gouda” is uncommon German (frequency #57,919 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,919
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schnittkäse mit runden bis ovalen Löchern, einer hellgelben bis goldgelber Farbe und einem milden bis pikanten Geschmack
Corpus desk
Index DE-gouda · Gouda · German
Gouda · rank #57,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,919
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Golfkrieg
Nearest frequency peer: Golfkrieg (-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 „Gouda“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- glow
glow
42,085 corpus weight
- Goldfisch
Goldfisch
42,084 corpus weight
- Golfkrieg
Golfkrieg
42,083 corpus weight
- Gouda
Gouda
42,082 corpus weight
- Grabstätten
Grabstätten
42,081 corpus weight
- grit
grit
42,080 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gouda“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gouda |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡaʊ̯da] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gouda“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gouda is uncommon German at frequency #57,919 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡaʊ̯da]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schnittkäse mit runden bis ovalen Löchern, einer hellgelben bis goldgelber Farbe und einem milden bis pikanten Geschmack".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gouda, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Gouda, spelled G-O-U-D-A.
Definition
- 1Schnittkäse mit runden bis ovalen Löchern, einer hellgelben bis goldgelber Farbe und einem milden bis pikanten Geschmack
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gouda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Haben wir noch einen Rest Gouda im Kühlschrank?
Synonyms
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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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