erwerben
[ɛɐ̯ˈvɛʁbn̩]
The verdict
“erwerben” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,941
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas durch eigene Arbeit verdienen
Corpus desk
Index DE-erwerben · erwerben · German
erwerben · rank #5,941 · 12 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,941
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erreichten
Nearest frequency peer: erreichten (-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 „erwerben“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Energiewende
Energiewende
94,063 corpus weight
- Entdeckung
Entdeckung
94,062 corpus weight
- erreichten
erreichten
94,061 corpus weight
- erwerben
erwerben
94,060 corpus weight
- Felder
Felder
94,059 corpus weight
- Ferdinand
Ferdinand
94,058 corpus weight
What this shows „erwerben“ 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 | erwerben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈvɛʁbn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „erwerben“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around erwerben (IPA [ɛɐ̯ˈvɛʁbn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,941 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for erwerben, with forms such as "erewrben", "errwerben", and "erwebren". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Erwerbs", "erworben", "erwirken", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is erwerben, spelled E-R-W-E-R-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas durch eigene Arbeit verdienen
- 2etwas gegen Bezahlung in Besitz nehmen; etwas kaufen
- 3sich Wissen oder Fähigkeiten durch Lernen aneignen
- 4sich ein bestimmtes Ansehen oder Vertrauen aneignen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erwerben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie erwirbt ihren Lebensunterhalt durch die Arbeit als Bäckerin.
Ich erwarb ein neues Haus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erewrben
- errwerben
- erwebren
- erwerbben
- erwerbenn
- erwerbne
- erwerebn
- erwerrben
- erwreben
- erwwerben
- ewrerben
- rewerben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of erwerben - 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 "erwerben", 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).