gestalten
\ɡəˈʃtaltn̩\
The verdict
“gestalten” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agencer, mettre en forme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gestalten · gestalten · French
gestalten · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | gestalten |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡəˈʃtaltn̩\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gestalten » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gestalten is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡəˈʃtaltn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Agencer, mettre en forme.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gestalten, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 gestalten, spelled G-E-S-T-A-L-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Agencer, mettre en forme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gestalten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Detlef argumentiert, dass man das Restaurant neu gestalten könnte, um es für die Kunden interessanter zu machen. Emma wendet ein, dass viele Kunden die jetzige Gestaltung loben.
Die Union will die EEG-Umlage abschaffen, eine „fachliche Bestandsaufnahme“ zur erneuten Nutzung der abgeschalteten Atomkraftwerke durchführen, die Beheizung der Häuser wieder „technologieoffen“ gestalten (also weg von der Wärmepumpe) – und mehr Geld in die Erforschung der Kernfusion stecken.
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.