grüß Gott

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

grüß Gott is aGermanphrase. It means: zur Begrüßung – gelegentlich auch bei der Verabschiedung – verwendete Wortverbindung Pronounced […].

Key facts for grüß Gott
PropertyValue
Headwordgrüß Gott
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

grüß Gott is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for grüß Gott is 9 letters long, classified as aphrase, 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".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for grüß Gott in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 grüß Gott, spelled G-R-Ü-S-S- -G-O-T-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    zur Begrüßung – gelegentlich auch bei der Verabschiedung – verwendete Wortverbindung

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grüß Gott"?
"grüß Gott" is spelled G-R-Ü-SS- -G-O-T-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "grüß Gott" mean?
As a phrase, "grüß Gott" means: zur Begrüßung – gelegentlich auch bei der Verabschiedung – verwendete Wortverbindung
How do you pronounce "grüß Gott"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grüß Gott" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grüß Gott" come from?
"grüß Gott" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.