grüezi

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for grüezi is 6 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡryə̯t͡sɪ]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,845 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine Begrüßung tagsüber („guten Tag“), heute hauptsächlich Personen gegenüber, mit denen man nicht per du (sondern per Ihr oder per Sie) ist, veraltend auch gegenüber Personen, die man duzt".

Zero misspellings are on record for grüezi in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is grüezi, spelled G-R-Ü-E-Z-I.