Gewohnheiten
[ɡəˈvoːnhaɪ̯tn̩]
The verdict
“Gewohnheiten” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,647. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,647
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Gewohnheit
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewohnheiten · Gewohnheiten · German
Gewohnheiten · rank #15,647 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,647
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH getrennten
Nearest frequency peer: getrennten (-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 “Gewohnheiten”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gesamtes
gesamtes
84,357 corpus weight
- getrennten
getrennten
84,355 corpus weight
- Gewohnheiten
Gewohnheiten
84,354 corpus weight
- grass
grass
84,353 corpus weight
- Grundwasser
Grundwasser
84,352 corpus weight
- Göttern
Göttern
84,351 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Gewohnheiten” 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 | Gewohnheiten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvoːnhaɪ̯tn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #15,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gewohnheiten” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around Gewohnheiten (IPA [ɡəˈvoːnhaɪ̯tn̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,647 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gewohnheiten, with forms such as "egwohnheiten", "geowhnheiten", and "gewhonheiten". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Gewohnheit", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Gewohnheiten, spelled G-E-W-O-H-N-H-E-I-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Gewohnheit
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Gewohnheit
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs Gewohnheit
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Gewohnheit
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwohnheiten
- geowhnheiten
- gewhonheiten
- gewohhneiten
- gewohhnheiten
- gewohnehiten
- gewohnheietn
- gewohnheitenn
- gewohnheitne
- gewohnheitten
- gewohnhetien
- gewohnhheiten
- gewohnhieten
- gewohnnheiten
- gewonhheiten
- gewwohnheiten
- ggewohnheiten
- gweohnheiten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gewohnheiten - 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 "Gewohnheiten", 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).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "Gewohnheit". View pair
- 18 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #15,647 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "G" letter cohort. G–Z browse
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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.