geld
/ɡɛld/
"geld" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“geld” is uncommon English (frequency #84,293 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,293
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Money.
Corpus desk
Index EN-geld · geld · English
geld · rank #84,293 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,293
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH genderqueer
Nearest frequency peer: genderqueer (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “geld”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gbps
Gbps
15,713 corpus weight
- Geb
Geb
15,711 corpus weight
- geld
geld
15,708 corpus weight
- genderqueer
genderqueer
15,707 corpus weight
- Gilbertson
Gilbertson
15,702 corpus weight
- gillie
gillie
15,701 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “geld” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geld |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɛld/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “geld” in English
Rare enough to double-check
geld is uncommon English at frequency #84,293 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡɛld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for geld in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English geld and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ġield (“payment, tribute”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Proba… The correct English form is geld, spelled G-E-L-D.
Definition
- 1Money.
- 2Money.
Etymology
From Middle English geld and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ġield (“payment, tribute”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Probably reinforced by gelt (which see), see Norwegian Bokmål gjeld (“debt”), Danish gæld (“debt”). Geld is also written gelt or gild, and as such found in wergild, Danegeld, etc. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian jild (“money”), Saterland Frisian Jield, Jäild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳 (gild, “tribute”). Also related to English yield.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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