EWR
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The verdict
“EWR” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,311) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,311
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Europäischer Wirtschaftsraum
Corpus desk
Index DE-ewr · EWR · German
EWR · rank #36,311 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,311
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Fabrikanten
Nearest frequency peer: Fabrikanten (+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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „EWR“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „EWR“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | EWR |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „EWR“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for EWR is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ex", "ey", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #36,311 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Europäischer Wirtschaftsraum".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for EWR, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ex", "ey", "EZB", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is EWR, spelled E-W-R.
Definition
- 1Europäischer Wirtschaftsraum
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how EWR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der EWR ist eine vertiefte Freihandelszone.“
„Im EWR wurden die Zölle zwischen den Mitgliedstaaten abgeschafft und es gelten etwa 80 % der Binnenmarktvorschriften der EU.“
This word in other languages
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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