guttural
[ɡʊtuˈʁaːl]
The verdict
“guttural” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kehlig; die Kehle betreffend
Corpus desk
Index DE-guttural · guttural · German
guttural · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | guttural |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡʊtuˈʁaːl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „guttural“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
guttural is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡʊtuˈʁaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for guttural in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 guttural, spelled G-U-T-T-U-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1kehlig; die Kehle betreffend
- 2im Bereich des harten Gaumens oder des Zäpfchens (Uvula) gebildet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guttural appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er sprach sehr guttural.
Die Laute [k], [g], [x] und das am Zäpfchen gebildete (= uvulare) [R] gehören zu den gutturalen Lauten im Deutschen.
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.