geschiedenis
\ɣə.sχi:.də.nɪs\
The verdict
“geschiedenis” is uncommon French (frequency #90,765 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,765
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Histoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-geschiedenis · geschiedenis · French
geschiedenis · rank #90,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,765
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH genera
Nearest frequency peer: genera (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « geschiedenis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- genera
genera
9,237 corpus weight
- geschiedenis
geschiedenis
9,236 corpus weight
- Ghesquière
Ghesquière
9,235 corpus weight
- gigote
gigote
9,234 corpus weight
- giratoires
giratoires
9,233 corpus weight
- Girodet
Girodet
9,232 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « geschiedenis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geschiedenis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɣə.sχi:.də.nɪs\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #90,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « geschiedenis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
geschiedenis is uncommon French at frequency #90,765 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɣə.sχi:.də.nɪs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for geschiedenis, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 geschiedenis, spelled G-E-S-C-H-I-E-D-E-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Histoire.
- 2Historique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how geschiedenis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
de geschiedenis van een land
de geschiedenis van een computerbestand
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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