Gewinnspiel
[ɡəˈvɪnˌʃpiːl]
The verdict
“Gewinnspiel” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,726
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Spiel, bei dem es etwas zu gewinnen gibt
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewinnspiel · Gewinnspiel · German
Gewinnspiel · rank #12,726 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,726
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,401
- PHOTO-FINISH Gisela
Nearest frequency peer: Gisela (+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 “Gewinnspiel”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Geschwindig…
Geschwindigkeiten
87,278 corpus weight
- gespendet
gespendet
87,277 corpus weight
- Gewinnspiel
Gewinnspiel
87,275 corpus weight
- Gisela
Gisela
87,274 corpus weight
- groben
groben
87,273 corpus weight
- gründet
gründet
87,272 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Gewinnspiel” 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 | Gewinnspiel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvɪnˌʃpiːl] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gewinnspiel” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Gewinnspiel (IPA [ɡəˈvɪnˌʃpiːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,726 among 54,401 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Spiel, bei dem es etwas zu gewinnen gibt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gewinnspiel, with forms such as "egwinnspiel", "geiwnnspiel", and "gewinnpsiel". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Gewinnspiele", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gewinnspiel, spelled G-E-W-I-N-N-S-P-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Spiel, bei dem es etwas zu gewinnen gibt
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwinnspiel
- geiwnnspiel
- gewinnpsiel
- gewinnsipel
- gewinnspeil
- gewinnspiell
- gewinnspile
- gewinnsppiel
- gewinnsspiel
- gewinsnpiel
- gewinspiel
- gewninspiel
- gewwinnspiel
- ggewinnspiel
- gweinnspiel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gewinnspiel - 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 May 6, 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 "Gewinnspiel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 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.