Gesellschaft
\ɡə.ˈzɛl.ʃaft\
The verdict
“Gesellschaft” is uncommon French (frequency #50,854 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,854
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Société ; ensemble d’individus qui partagent des normes, des conduites et une culture, et qui interagissent en coopération pour former un groupe ou une communauté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gesellschaft · Gesellschaft · French
Gesellschaft · rank #50,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,854
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH genoa
Nearest frequency peer: genoa (-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 « Gesellschaft »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galeriste
galeriste
49,151 corpus weight
- gaélique
gaélique
49,149 corpus weight
- genoa
genoa
49,148 corpus weight
- Gesellschaft
Gesellschaft
49,147 corpus weight
- geôliers
geôliers
49,146 corpus weight
- Giuliano
Giuliano
49,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Gesellschaft » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gesellschaft |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡə.ˈzɛl.ʃaft\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #50,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Gesellschaft » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Gesellschaft is uncommon French at frequency #50,854 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡə.ˈzɛl.ʃaft\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Gesellschaft 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Gesellschaft, spelled G-E-S-E-L-L-S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Société ; ensemble d’individus qui partagent des normes, des conduites et une culture, et qui interagissent en coopération pour former un groupe ou une communauté.
- 2Société ; collectif de personnes dotées d'une personnalité civile.
- 3Groupe de personnes.
- 4Réception.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gesellschaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
(Es ist Maier wichtig,) die Plastik nicht in irgendein Museum abzuschieben, sondern an einem Lernort in unmittelbarer Nähe zur Stadtkirche zu zeigen, "wie tief der Judenhass seit Jahrhunderten in unsere Gesellschaft hineinreicht".
Zehn Jahre lang blieb der Mord an einem Berliner Rentner unbemerkt. Das sagt etwas über den Umgang der Gesellschaft mit dem Alter aus.
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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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