gut
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#89
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gut is anGermanadj. It means: vom Menschen her positiv bewertet, empfunden, gefühlt und dergleichen Pronounced [ɡuːt]. It ranks #89 in German word frequency. Often confused with GV and gz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ɡuːt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #89 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for gut is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡuːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #89 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gut in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GV", "gz", "guy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is gut, spelled G-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1vom Menschen her positiv bewertet, empfunden, gefühlt und dergleichen
- 2vom Menschen her positiv bewertet, empfunden, gefühlt und dergleichen
- 3vom Menschen her positiv bewertet, empfunden, gefühlt und dergleichen
- 4eine Schulnote
- 5eine Schulnote
- 6eine Schulnote
- 7mit Zahl- oder Maßangaben: reichlich bemessen, etwas mehr als angegeben
- 8jemandem freundlich gesinnt, jemandem zugetan
- 9für besonders feierliche Anlässe gedacht
- 10ohne größere Mühen zu erledigen, leicht machbar
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #89 in German
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