Gyros
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#52,909
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Gyros is aGermannoun. It means: griechisches Fleischgericht, bei dem am drehenden Spieß gegrilltes und nach und nach in kleinen, fertig gegarten Stücken abgeschnittenes Fleisch mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Beilagen auf dem Telle... Pronounced [ˈɡyːʁɔs].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gyros |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡyːʁɔs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gyros is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡyːʁɔs]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,909 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Gyros in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Gyros, spelled G-Y-R-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1griechisches Fleischgericht, bei dem am drehenden Spieß gegrilltes und nach und nach in kleinen, fertig gegarten Stücken abgeschnittenes Fleisch mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Beilagen auf dem Teller serviert wird
- 2von „Gyros Pita“, einem unter Verwendung von [1] zubereitetem Fast Food-Gericht, bei dem das Fleisch zusammen mit Gemüse und Soße in einem aufgeschnittenen oder eingewickelt in einem Fladenbrot („Pita“) dargereicht wird
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #52,909 in German
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