Greisin
[ˈɡʁaɪ̯zɪn]
The verdict
“Greisin” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sehr alte Frau
Corpus desk
Index DE-greisin · Greisin · German
Greisin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | Greisin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡʁaɪ̯zɪn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Greisin“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Greisin is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡʁaɪ̯zɪn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sehr alte Frau".
Zero misspellings are on record for Greisin in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Greisin, spelled G-R-E-I-S-I-N.
Definition
- 1sehr alte Frau
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Greisin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hermine und ich sahen uns erst 60 Jahre nach dem Abitur wieder, als wir schon Greisinnen waren.
„Die schöne Fahrt in der alten Droschke, auf die sich die Greisin so gefreut hatte, war ihr schon nach zehn Minuten zuviel.“
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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.