GUS
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The verdict
“GUS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,375) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,375
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Glucuronidase, ein Glykosid
Corpus desk
Index DE-gus · GUS · German
GUS · rank #24,375 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,375
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Guru
Nearest frequency peer: Guru (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „GUS“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Grat
Grat
75,630 corpus weight
- Grundbesitz
Grundbesitz
75,628 corpus weight
- Guru
Guru
75,627 corpus weight
- GUS
GUS
75,626 corpus weight
- handwerklich
handwerklich
75,624 corpus weight
- Heinemann
Heinemann
75,623 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „GUS“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | GUS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „GUS“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GUS is neighbouring look-alikes ("GV", "gz", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #24,375 among 5,117 “G” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
GUS has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GV", "gz", "gut", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is GUS, spelled G-U-S.
Definition
- 1Glucuronidase, ein Glykosid
- 2Gesellschaft für Umweltsimulation
- 3Gemeinschaft/Gruppe Unabhängiger Staaten – eine Verbindung von elf souveränen Staaten, die früher Teil der UdSSR waren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how GUS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
GUS ist eine wichtige Substanz, die im GUSB-Gen des Menschen vorkommt.
„Über die GUS sind zahlreiche Umweltlabore vernetzt, die über die Geschäftsstelle bei speziellen Anforderungen angefragt werden können.“
Synonyms
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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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