ftw
The verdict
“ftw” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,821) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,821
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung der Wendung for the win ^(→ en), die die Sympathie mit einer Sache ausdrückt
Corpus desk
Index DE-ftw · ftw · German
ftw · rank #41,821 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,821
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fremdenverkehr
Nearest frequency peer: Fremdenverkehr (-2 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 „ftw“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Fratze
Fratze
58,184 corpus weight
- Fremdenverk…
Fremdenverkehr
58,182 corpus weight
- ftw
ftw
58,180 corpus weight
- Fuji
Fuji
58,178 corpus weight
- futures
futures
58,177 corpus weight
- Fässern
Fässern
58,176 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ftw“ 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 | ftw |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ftw“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ftw is neighbouring look-alikes ("FW", "FV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #41,821 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung der Wendung for the win ^(→ en), die die Sympathie mit einer Sache ausdrückt".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ftw, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FW", "FV", "für", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is ftw, spelled F-T-W.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung der Wendung for the win ^(→ en), die die Sympathie mit einer Sache ausdrückt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ftw appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„My guild ftw!“
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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