grüß Gott
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The verdict
“grüß Gott” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - zur Begrüßung – gelegentlich auch bei der Verabschiedung – verwendete Wortverbindung
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grüß Gott |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grüß Gott” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for grüß Gott is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "zur Begrüßung – gelegentlich auch bei der Verabschiedung – verwendete Wortverbindung".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grüß Gott, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 grüß Gott, spelled G-R-Ü-S-S- -G-O-T-T.
Definition
- 1zur Begrüßung – gelegentlich auch bei der Verabschiedung – verwendete Wortverbindung
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “grüß Gott”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-R-Ü-S-S- -G-O-T-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.