Gericht
\ɡəˈʁɪçt\
The verdict
“Gericht” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tribunal, juridiction, justice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gericht · Gericht · French
Gericht · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" 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 | Gericht |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡəˈʁɪçt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Gericht is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡəˈʁɪçt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gericht, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is Gericht, spelled G-E-R-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1Tribunal, juridiction, justice.
- 2Tribunal, lieu où se fait le jugement, siège du juge.
- 3Plat (que l'on mange).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gericht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wie ein Polizist vor Gericht aussagt, nahm Lars H. das Messer an sich, fuchtelte damit herum. Und er stieß laufend übelste Beleidigungen aus
Ein Gericht in Washington bestätigte kürzlich die Anklage, wonach Giuliani die beiden Frauen vorsätzlich verleumdet hatte.
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.