gewähren
[ɡəˈvɛːʁən]
The verdict
“gewähren” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,328. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,328
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem etwas Erwünschtes zugestehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewahren · gewähren · German
gewähren · rank #7,328 · 12 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,328
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gespeichert
Nearest frequency peer: gespeichert (-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 „gewähren“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- geschlossene
geschlossene
92,676 corpus weight
- Gesetzen
Gesetzen
92,675 corpus weight
- gespeichert
gespeichert
92,674 corpus weight
- gewähren
gewähren
92,673 corpus weight
- gewährleist…
gewährleistet
92,672 corpus weight
- gezeichnet
gezeichnet
92,671 corpus weight
What this shows „gewähren“ 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 | gewähren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvɛːʁən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gewähren“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around gewähren (IPA [ɡəˈvɛːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,328 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for gewähren, with forms such as "egwähren", "gewhären", and "gewwähren". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "gewährt", "Gewehre", "gewannen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 gewähren, spelled G-E-W-Ä-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem etwas Erwünschtes zugestehen
- 2jemandem etwas bereiten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gewähren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit viel Mühe erreichte der Reporter, dass ihm ein Interview gewährt wurde.
„Die Gesetzesnovelle gewährt der Polizei, den Gesundheitsbehörden sowie dem Grenzschutz zusätzliche Vollmachten, […].“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwähren
- gewhären
- gewwähren
- gewähern
- gewähhren
- gewährenn
- gewährne
- gewährren
- gewärhen
- geäwhren
- ggewähren
- gweähren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gewähren - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "gewähren", 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).