gewaltig
[ɡəˈvaltɪç]
The verdict
“gewaltig” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,478. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,478
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sehr groß oder sehr bedeutend
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewaltig · gewaltig · German
gewaltig · rank #7,478 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,478
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gesendet
Nearest frequency peer: gesendet (-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 „gewaltig“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- geehrt
geehrt
92,527 corpus weight
- gefährlichen
gefährlichen
92,526 corpus weight
- gefährlicher
gefährlicher
92,525 corpus weight
- gesendet
gesendet
92,524 corpus weight
- gewaltig
gewaltig
92,523 corpus weight
- gleiches
gleiches
92,522 corpus weight
What this shows „gewaltig“ 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 | gewaltig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvaltɪç] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gewaltig“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around gewaltig (IPA [ɡəˈvaltɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,478 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for gewaltig, with forms such as "egwaltig", "geawltig", and "gewalitg". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "gewaltige", "gewaltigen", "gewaltiger", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is gewaltig, spelled G-E-W-A-L-T-I-G.
Definition
- 1sehr groß oder sehr bedeutend
- 2sehr
- 3mit viel Macht ausgestattet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gewaltig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gewaltige Wolken türmten sich auf.
Das macht aber einen gewaltigen Unterschied!
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwaltig
- geawltig
- gewalitg
- gewalltig
- gewaltgi
- gewaltigg
- gewalttig
- gewatlig
- gewlatig
- gewwaltig
- ggewaltig
- gwealtig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gewaltig - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "gewaltig", 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).