Gewerkschaft
[ɡəˈvɛʁkʃaft]
The verdict
“Gewerkschaft” has 20 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,054. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,054
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation, Verein der Arbeitnehmer zum Durchsetzen eigener Interessen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewerkschaft · Gewerkschaft · German
Gewerkschaft · rank #7,054 · 20 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,054
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gewannen
Nearest frequency peer: gewannen (-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 „Gewerkschaft“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Geliebten
Geliebten
92,950 corpus weight
- genehmigt
genehmigt
92,949 corpus weight
- gewannen
gewannen
92,948 corpus weight
- Gewerkschaft
Gewerkschaft
92,947 corpus weight
- gewisser
gewisser
92,946 corpus weight
- Glanz
Glanz
92,945 corpus weight
What this shows „Gewerkschaft“ 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 | Gewerkschaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvɛʁkʃaft] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #7,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gewerkschaft“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around Gewerkschaft (IPA [ɡəˈvɛʁkʃaft]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,054 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gewerkschaft, with forms such as "egwerkschaft", "geewrkschaft", and "gewekrschaft". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Gewerkschaften", "Gewerkschafter", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Gewerkschaft, spelled G-E-W-E-R-K-S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Organisation, Verein der Arbeitnehmer zum Durchsetzen eigener Interessen
- 2bergbauliche Unternehmensform
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gewerkschaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Gewerkschaften riefen einen Streik aus.
„Das war die Auffassung einer Oppositionsgruppe unter dem Gewerkschafter Josef Zinner, der eine England-Gruppe von Vertrauensmännern der Gewerkschaften ins Leben gerufen hatte.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwerkschaft
- geewrkschaft
- gewekrschaft
- gewerkcshaft
- gewerkkschaft
- gewerkscahft
- gewerkscchaft
- gewerkschafft
- gewerkschaftt
- gewerkschatf
- gewerkschfat
- gewerkschhaft
- gewerkshcaft
- gewerksschaft
- gewerrkschaft
- gewerskchaft
- gewrekschaft
- gewwerkschaft
- ggewerkschaft
- gweerkschaft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gewerkschaft - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Gewerkschaft", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).