Wildgans
[ˈvɪltˌɡans]
The verdict
“Wildgans” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - eine Gans, die in der freien Natur lebt und dort auch meist geboren wurde
Corpus desk
Index DE-wildgans · Wildgans · German
Wildgans · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" 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 | Wildgans |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɪltˌɡans] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wildgans“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wildgans is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvɪltˌɡans]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Gans, die in der freien Natur lebt und dort auch meist geboren wurde".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Wildgans in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Wildgans, spelled W-I-L-D-G-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1eine Gans, die in der freien Natur lebt und dort auch meist geboren wurde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wildgans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jutta hat vorhin einen Schwarm Wildgänse am Himmel fliegen sehen.
„In dieses Rot hinein flogen Wildgänse, ihre Schreie verebbten über dem weiten Land, das hier begann.“
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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.