Gewehr
[ɡəˈveːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Gewehr” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,443. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,443
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schusswaffe ab 30 cm Gesamtlänge
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewehr · Gewehr · German
Gewehr · rank #11,443 · 9 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,443
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gewaltigen
Nearest frequency peer: gewaltigen (-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 „Gewehr“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- geschieden
geschieden
88,561 corpus weight
- geschweige
geschweige
88,560 corpus weight
- gewaltigen
gewaltigen
88,559 corpus weight
- Gewehr
Gewehr
88,558 corpus weight
- Gleichstell…
Gleichstellung
88,556 corpus weight
- grant
grant
88,555 corpus weight
What this shows „Gewehr“ 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 | Gewehr |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈveːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gewehr“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Gewehr (IPA [ɡəˈveːɐ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,443 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gewehr, with forms such as "egwehr", "geewhr", and "gewehhr". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Geyer", "Geweih", "geweiht", 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 Gewehr, spelled G-E-W-E-H-R.
Definition
- 1Schusswaffe ab 30 cm Gesamtlänge
- 2jede Waffe jeglicher Art, insbesondere Hieb-, Schlag- und Stichwaffen
- 3Eckzähne des Wildschweins
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gewehr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Gewehr ist die Braut des Soldaten.
„Vielleicht hatten sich die feindlichen Heere fürs Erste mit genügend Gewehren, Kugeln und Schießpulver eingedeckt, vielleicht war aber auch Agaja schon zu sehr in die Defensive gedrängt, um sein Heer weiter mit Feuerwaffen versorgen zu können.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwehr
- geewhr
- gewehhr
- gewehrr
- gewerh
- gewher
- gewwehr
- ggewehr
- gweehr
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gewehr - 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 "Gewehr", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).