Deutsch (German)
A free German word reference: definitions, IPA pronunciation, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections from the open Wiktionary corpus.
German at a glance
PlainSpell indexes 1,077,739 German words with 2,006,359 confusable pairs and 1,008 homophones; more German words begin with “S” than any other letter, and “einen vs einer” is the pair most likely to be confused.
- 1,077,739
- German words
- 2,006,359
- confusable pairs
- 1,008
- homophones
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2026). Definitions, IPA pronunciation, etymology and spelling corrections, free.
Where German sits by word inventory
German indexes 1,077,739 headwords among 5 languages (corpus inventory, not a quality ranking). Orthogonal to the letter and length charts below.
German vs all languages by word count
Where this language's indexed vocabulary sits among every PlainSpell language
1,077,739 2nd of 5 higher than 3 of 5 languages
Languages, banded by headword inventory
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more languages. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via PlainSpell · 2026-09-03
German homophone groups by size
Exclusive cut of 483 German homophone groups by member count. Orthogonal to the initial-letter chart and word-length distribution below.
A–Z durchsuchen
Which letters start the most German words?
Most common initial letters in German
Top 10 letters, ranked by how many indexed words begin with each
- S
S
8,027 words
- A
A
6,976 words
- B
B
5,818 words
- G
G
5,117 words
- E
E
4,632 words
- V
V
4,163 words
- K
K
4,158 words
- M
M
3,571 words
- F
F
3,474 words
- P
P
3,409 words
How long are German words?
German word lengths
78,403 words by word length (letters); the ranking above is drawn from the right-hand tail
word length (letters) →
What this showsGerman vocabulary clusters around the middle lengths; the very short and very long words are a small minority of the indexed corpus.
Häufigste Wörter
Häufig verwechselte Paare
- 1einenvseiner
- 2einemvseinen
- 3einemvseiner
- 4werdenvswurde
- 5warenvswerden
- 6einenvseines
- 7einervseines
- 8einemvseines
- 9werdenvswurden
- 10hattevsHeute
Top 5 Verwechslungspaare auf einen Blick
Sortiert nach kombinierter Häufigkeit × visueller Ähnlichkeit. Höherer Balken = größere Verwechslungsgefahr im Alltag.
Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) German confusables export · Q2 2026 Confusable scores combine word-frequency rank and Damerau–Levenshtein similarity.
Explore German
Three ways into the corpus from here.
- Look up any German word for its definition, IPA pronunciation, etymology and misspellings. Browse German A–Z
- Settle a confusable pair, which spelling means what, compared side by side. Confusable pairs
- See the cross-language rankings: hardest to spell, most confusable, largest homophone groups. Rankings
Source & data vintage
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) German headword + definitions corpus · Q2 2026 Aggregated and indexed via kaikki.org dictionary export. Confusable pairs are computed; homophone groups are derived from IPA matches.
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