gutheißen
[ˈɡuːtˌhaɪ̯sn̩]
The verdict
“gutheißen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas für richtig halten, etwas als angebracht befinden
Corpus desk
Index DE-guthei-en · gutheißen · German
gutheißen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gutheißen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈɡuːtˌhaɪ̯sn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „gutheißen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
gutheißen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈɡuːtˌhaɪ̯sn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas für richtig halten, etwas als angebracht befinden".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gutheißen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 gutheißen, spelled G-U-T-H-E-I-S-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas für richtig halten, etwas als angebracht befinden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gutheißen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Solche riskanten Geschäfte kann man doch nicht gutheißen!
„Die unter der Mauer gelitten hatten, feierten ihre Austilgung, und die sie DDR-seits als antifaschistischen Schutzwall guthießen, wollten an dieses bornierte Fehlurteil nicht erinnert werden.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.