erwarten
[ɛɐ̯ˈvaʁtn̩]
The verdict
“erwarten” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,127
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf jemanden oder etwas warten, dem Eintreffen von etwas entgegensehen; denken, dass etwas kommen oder passieren wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-erwarten · erwarten · German
erwarten · rank #1,127 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,127
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH drin
Nearest frequency peer: drin (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „erwarten“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Begriff
Begriff
98,877 corpus weight
- Bericht
Bericht
98,876 corpus weight
- drin
drin
98,875 corpus weight
- erwarten
erwarten
98,874 corpus weight
- Fans
Fans
98,873 corpus weight
- Fenster
Fenster
98,872 corpus weight
What this shows „erwarten“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | erwarten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈvaʁtn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „erwarten“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around erwarten (IPA [ɛɐ̯ˈvaʁtn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,127 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for erwarten, with forms such as "erawrten", "errwarten", and "erwaretn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "erwartet", "erworben", "erwerben", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is erwarten, spelled E-R-W-A-R-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1auf jemanden oder etwas warten, dem Eintreffen von etwas entgegensehen; denken, dass etwas kommen oder passieren wird
- 2voraussichtlich bald bekommen
- 3etwas verlangen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erwarten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich erwarte dich dann um 11 Uhr zum Brunch.
„Ob [Anm.: die jüdische Ärztin] Lilli Jahn wusste, was sie in Auschwitz erwartete? Geahnt hat sie es wohl.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erawrten
- errwarten
- erwaretn
- erwarrten
- erwartenn
- erwartne
- erwartten
- erwatren
- erwraten
- erwwarten
- ewrarten
- rewarten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of erwarten - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "erwarten", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).