gewissenhaft
[ɡəˈvɪsənhaft]
The verdict
“gewissenhaft” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,742. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,742
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sorgfältig, gründlich vorgehen; es sich nicht leicht machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewissenhaft · gewissenhaft · German
gewissenhaft · rank #24,742 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,742
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gewichtung
Nearest frequency peer: Gewichtung (-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 „gewissenhaft“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Geschäftsle…
Geschäftsleute
75,262 corpus weight
- gespeist
gespeist
75,261 corpus weight
- Gewichtung
Gewichtung
75,260 corpus weight
- gewissenhaft
gewissenhaft
75,259 corpus weight
- gezeigte
gezeigte
75,258 corpus weight
- GHz
GHz
75,257 corpus weight
What this shows „gewissenhaft“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gewissenhaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvɪsənhaft] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #24,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gewissenhaft“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around gewissenhaft (IPA [ɡəˈvɪsənhaft]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,742 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sorgfältig, gründlich vorgehen; es sich nicht leicht machen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for gewissenhaft, with forms such as "egwissenhaft", "geiwssenhaft", and "gewisenhaft". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is gewissenhaft, spelled G-E-W-I-S-S-E-N-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1sorgfältig, gründlich vorgehen; es sich nicht leicht machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gewissenhaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alles ist gewissenhaft überprüft worden.
Sie war sehr gewissenhaft bei ihrer Arbeit.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwissenhaft
- geiwssenhaft
- gewisenhaft
- gewisesnhaft
- gewissehnaft
- gewissenahft
- gewissenhafft
- gewissenhaftt
- gewissenhatf
- gewissenhfat
- gewissenhhaft
- gewissennhaft
- gewissnehaft
- gewißenhaft
- gewsisenhaft
- gewwissenhaft
- ggewissenhaft
- gweissenhaft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gewissenhaft - 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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gewissenhaft", 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 (18 here; floor ≥5).