Gulag
[ˈɡuːlak]
The verdict
“Gulag” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,221. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,221
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptverwaltung des sowjetischen Straflagersystems
Corpus desk
Index DE-gulag · Gulag · German
Gulag · rank #35,221 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,221
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH guitar
Nearest frequency peer: guitar (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Gulag“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Grundregeln
Grundregeln
64,783 corpus weight
- Grundsteinl…
Grundsteinlegung
64,782 corpus weight
- guitar
guitar
64,781 corpus weight
- Gulag
Gulag
64,780 corpus weight
- handelten
handelten
64,779 corpus weight
- Haufe
Haufe
64,777 corpus weight
What this shows „Gulag“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gulag |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡuːlak] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gulag“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Gulag (IPA [ˈɡuːlak]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,221 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gulag, with forms such as "ggulag", "gluag", and "gualg". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Gülle", "gütig", "gültig", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Gulag, spelled G-U-L-A-G.
Definition
- 1Hauptverwaltung des sowjetischen Straflagersystems
- 2sowjetisches Straf- und Arbeitslager
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gulag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Später wurden die Betroffenen zunehmend mit gefälschten Vorwürfen in Schau- und Geheimprozessen zum Tod oder zu Lagerhaft und Zwangsarbeit im Gulag verurteilt, entsprechende Geständnisse wurden regelmäßig unter Folter erpresst.“
„In den Gulag kam man nicht, weil man etwas getan hatte, sondern weil man etwas war, resümiert die amerikanische Journalistin Anne Applebaum in ihrem Standardwerk Der Gulag.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggulag
- gluag
- gualg
- gulagg
- gulga
- gullag
- uglag
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gulag - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gulag", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).