weichtvswhichWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: weicht is a verb, which is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“weicht” is a verb and “which” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,994
“weicht” frequency rank
#12,204
“which” frequency rank
27198
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature weicht which
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens des Verbs weichen welche?

Letter map: weicht vs which

Shared letters muted; letters that set weicht and which apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
weicht
5 ch
which

Role in the sentence - weicht and which

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: weicht is averb and whichapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27198, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

weicht is recorded at frequency rank #14,994, classified as averb, pronounced [vaɪ̯çt]. which is at rank #12,204, tagged as apron, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 27198, this pair ranks #1,805,694 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of weicht vs which

Shared letters: chiw. Private to "weicht": et. Private to "which": -.

"weicht" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCC  ·  "which" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • weichtewicht · weciht · weiccht · weichht · weichtt · weicth · weihct · wiecht
  • whichhwich · whcih · whhich · whicch · whichh · whihc · wihch · wwhich

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "weicht" and "which" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "weicht" is a verb and "which" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "weicht" or "which" show up more?
"which" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,204 in our German list, against #14,994 for "weicht". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "weicht" vs "which" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "weicht" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "which" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,805,694 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "weicht" and "which" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs which". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,805,694 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list