GSA
The verdict
“GSA” is uncommon German (frequency #84,056 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,056
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - GeoSphere Austria
Corpus desk
Index DE-gsa · GSA · German
GSA · rank #84,056 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,056
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Grüns
Nearest frequency peer: Grüns (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „GSA“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- gröbste
gröbste
15,948 corpus weight
- grünlichen
grünlichen
15,947 corpus weight
- Grüns
Grüns
15,946 corpus weight
- GSA
GSA
15,945 corpus weight
- guckten
guckten
15,942 corpus weight
- Guineas
Guineas
15,941 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „GSA“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | GSA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #84,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „GSA“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
GSA is uncommon German at frequency #84,056 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "GeoSphere Austria".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for GSA, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is GSA, spelled G-S-A.
Definition
- 1GeoSphere Austria
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how GSA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
§ 1. (1) Gegenstand dieses Bundesgesetzes sind 1. die Errichtung der GeoSphere Austria – Bundesanstalt für Geologie, Geophysik, Klimatologie und Meteorologie (in weiterer Folge „GSA“) […]
§ 2. (2) Der Sitz der GSA ist Wien, wobei die Einrichtung von Regionalstellen in Bundesländern und Zweigstellen im Ausland zulässig ist.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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