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ganzfeld

/ˈɡɑːnsˌfɛld/noun

ganzfeld is spelled G-A-N-Z-F-E-L-D: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ganzfeld means “A particular phenomenon of visual perception, the ganzfeld effect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ganzfeld is ganzfelds.

How many letters and syllables are in ganzfeld?

Letters8: G-A-N-Z-F-E-L-D
In writingabout once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is ganzfeld?

Ganzfeld appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce ganzfeld?

  • /ˈɡɑːnsˌfɛld/
  • /ˈɡænsˌ-/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ganzfeld.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ganzfeld2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of ganzfeld

  • ganzfelds plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does ganzfeld mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A particular phenomenon of visual perception, the ganzfeld effect.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does ganzfeld come from?

From German, meaning "complete field", from ganz + Feld.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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