gräuelhaft
[ˈɡʁɔɪ̯əlhaft]
The verdict
“gräuelhaft” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - furchtbar, entsetzlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-grauelhaft · gräuelhaft · German
gräuelhaft · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gräuelhaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɡʁɔɪ̯əlhaft] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gräuelhaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gräuelhaft is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɡʁɔɪ̯əlhaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "furchtbar, entsetzlich".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gräuelhaft, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is gräuelhaft, spelled G-R-Ä-U-E-L-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1furchtbar, entsetzlich
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gräuelhaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die gräuelhaften Folgen dieses Wahnes sind zu bekannt, als daß wir sie hier ausmalen möchten; zu Straßburg wurden 900 Juden verbrannt (von 1884, die überhaupt dort lebten); in Mainz gaben sich die zahlreichen Juden der Stadt in ihren Häusern freiwillig den Feuertod. Ebenso fanden in Augsburg, Ulm, Constanz, Hall, München, Salzburg, Erfurt, Eisenach masse…
„Man braucht daher über die gräuelhaften Folgen des Priestercölibats kein großes Geschrei zu machen. Sie mußten kommen. Die harmloseste dieser Folgen war, daß an die Stelle der rechtmäßigen Ehe der Priester die wilde trat, der Konkubinat.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.