Spießgeselle
[ˈʃpiːsɡəˌzɛlə]
The verdict
“Spießgeselle” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die gemeinsam mit anderen etwas Unrechtmäßiges tut
Corpus desk
Index DE-spie-geselle · Spießgeselle · German
Spießgeselle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | Spießgeselle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpiːsɡəˌzɛlə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Spießgeselle” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Spießgeselle is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃpiːsɡəˌzɛlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die gemeinsam mit anderen etwas Unrechtmäßiges tut".
No misspelling variants are generated for Spießgeselle in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Spießgeselle, spelled S-P-I-E-S-S-G-E-S-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Person, die gemeinsam mit anderen etwas Unrechtmäßiges tut
This word in other languages
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