Gstaad
[kʃtaːt]
The verdict
“Gstaad” is uncommon German (frequency #65,313 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,313
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dorf im Berner Oberland, touristischer Hauptort und Nobelferienort
Corpus desk
Index DE-gstaad · Gstaad · German
Gstaad · rank #65,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,313
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH GSG
Nearest frequency peer: GSG (-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 „Gstaad“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Grundstudium
Grundstudium
34,693 corpus weight
- Gruppenbild
Gruppenbild
34,692 corpus weight
- grässliche
grässliche
34,691 corpus weight
- GSG
GSG
34,689 corpus weight
- Gstaad
Gstaad
34,688 corpus weight
- Guyana
Guyana
34,687 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gstaad“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gstaad |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kʃtaːt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gstaad“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gstaad is uncommon German at frequency #65,313 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [kʃtaːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dorf im Berner Oberland, touristischer Hauptort und Nobelferienort".
Gstaad doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gstaad, spelled G-S-T-A-A-D.
Definition
- 1Dorf im Berner Oberland, touristischer Hauptort und Nobelferienort
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gstaad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Versuchen Sie, die Kerle zu Hause zu erreichen, in den Hamptons, in Gstaad, Aspen, ganz egal, wo zum Teufel die sich gerade aufhalten.“
„Darauf verwandte er Jahre, doch schließlich kehrte er Afrika den Rücken und trat ganz diskret in die Dienste einer der weltweit ältesten Banken in Familienbesitz, der Meier Privatbank in Gstaad.“
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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