Gewinnung
[ɡəˈvɪnʊŋ]
The verdict
“Gewinnung” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,930
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Gewinnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewinnung · Gewinnung · German
Gewinnung · rank #12,930 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,930
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gewerblichen
Nearest frequency peer: gewerblichen (-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 „Gewinnung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Geschirr
Geschirr
87,074 corpus weight
- gewaltsam
gewaltsam
87,073 corpus weight
- gewerblichen
gewerblichen
87,072 corpus weight
- Gewinnung
Gewinnung
87,071 corpus weight
- Gleichheit
Gleichheit
87,070 corpus weight
- Graffiti
Graffiti
87,069 corpus weight
What this shows „Gewinnung“ 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 | Gewinnung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvɪnʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gewinnung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Gewinnung (IPA [ɡəˈvɪnʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,930 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gewinnung, with forms such as "egwinnung", "geiwnnung", and "gewinnnug". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Gewöhnung", "gewinnen", "Gesinnung", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gewinnung, spelled G-E-W-I-N-N-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1das Gewinnen
- 2Erlangen von Werten, ohne sie selbst zu erzeugen oder einzusammeln
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gewinnung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Gewinnung von Meersalz aus Meerwasser setzt ein warmes Klima voraus und erfolgt in mehreren Stufen.“
[Erdgas:] „Nur gut 10 Prozent des Gases wird hierzulande zur Gewinnung von Strom genutzt.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwinnung
- geiwnnung
- gewinnnug
- gewinnugn
- gewinnungg
- gewinnunng
- gewinung
- gewinunng
- gewninung
- gewwinnung
- ggewinnung
- gweinnung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gewinnung - 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 "Gewinnung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).