Gewicht
[ɡəˈvɪçt]
The verdict
“Gewicht” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #2,247. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,247
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Masse eines Körpers; das, was man auf einer Waage in Form von Kilogramm ablesen kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewicht · Gewicht · German
Gewicht · rank #2,247 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,247
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Farben
Nearest frequency peer: Farben (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Gewicht”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ergeben
ergeben
97,757 corpus weight
- erklärte
erklärte
97,756 corpus weight
- Farben
Farben
97,755 corpus weight
- Gewicht
Gewicht
97,754 corpus weight
- Hersteller
Hersteller
97,753 corpus weight
- Händen
Händen
97,752 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Gewicht” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Gewicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvɪçt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gewicht” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Gewicht (IPA [ɡəˈvɪçt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,247 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gewicht, with forms such as "egwicht", "geiwcht", and "gewciht". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Gicht", "gewinnt", "gleicht", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Gewicht, spelled G-E-W-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1Masse eines Körpers; das, was man auf einer Waage in Form von Kilogramm ablesen kann
- 2Gewichtskraft
- 3Gewichtsstück, eine Maßverkörperung der Masse
- 4Gewichtungsvariable (Gewichtung)
- 5große Bedeutung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gewicht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hans muss sein Gewicht verringern, damit er überlebt.
„In der Geldpolitik gelang es, durch die Einführung des Solidus eine nach Gewicht und Metallgehalt im gesamten Reich anerkannte, einheitliche Goldwährung zu schaffen, womit ein hohes Maß an Stabilität gewonnen wurde.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwicht
- geiwcht
- gewciht
- gewiccht
- gewichht
- gewichtt
- gewicth
- gewihct
- gewwicht
- ggewicht
- gweicht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gewicht - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gewicht", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.