Gewässer
[ɡəˈvɛsɐ]
The verdict
“Gewässer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,559. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,559
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein von stehendem oder fließendem Wasser bedeckter Teil der Erdoberfläche
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewasser · Gewässer · German
Gewässer · rank #9,559 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,559
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Getreide
Nearest frequency peer: Getreide (-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 „Gewässer“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- geschoben
geschoben
90,445 corpus weight
- gestimmt
gestimmt
90,444 corpus weight
- Getreide
Getreide
90,443 corpus weight
- Gewässer
Gewässer
90,442 corpus weight
- glücklichen
glücklichen
90,441 corpus weight
- Gymnasiums
Gymnasiums
90,440 corpus weight
What this shows „Gewässer“ 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 | Gewässer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvɛsɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gewässer“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Gewässer (IPA [ɡəˈvɛsɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,559 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gewässer, with forms such as "egwässer", "gewsäser", and "gewwässer". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "gewisse", "Gewissen", "gewisser", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Gewässer, spelled G-E-W-Ä-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1ein von stehendem oder fließendem Wasser bedeckter Teil der Erdoberfläche
- 2Teil des Meeres, der einem bestimmten oder keinem Staat gehört
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gewässer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aus Gründen des Umweltschutzes dürfen Industriebetriebe ihre Abfallprodukte nicht in Gewässer leiten.
Mit den Namen von Gewässern beschäftigt sich die Wissenschaftsdisziplin Hydronomie.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwässer
- gewsäser
- gewwässer
- gewäser
- gewäsesr
- gewässerr
- gewässre
- gewäßer
- geäwsser
- ggewässer
- gweässer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gewässer - 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 "Gewässer", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).