gewöhnlich
[ɡəˈvøːnlɪç]
The verdict
“gewöhnlich” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,493. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,493
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - so, wie unter diesen Umständen meist oder immer
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewohnlich · gewöhnlich · German
gewöhnlich · rank #5,493 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,493
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gewährt
Nearest frequency peer: gewährt (-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 „gewöhnlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gesetzlich
gesetzlich
94,511 corpus weight
- gesunden
gesunden
94,510 corpus weight
- gewährt
gewährt
94,509 corpus weight
- gewöhnlich
gewöhnlich
94,508 corpus weight
- hervorragend
hervorragend
94,506 corpus weight
- illegal
illegal
94,505 corpus weight
What this shows „gewöhnlich“ 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 | gewöhnlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvøːnlɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gewöhnlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around gewöhnlich (IPA [ɡəˈvøːnlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,493 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for gewöhnlich, with forms such as "egwöhnlich", "gewhönlich", and "gewwöhnlich". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "gewöhnliche", "gewöhnlichen", "gewöhnlicher", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 gewöhnlich, spelled G-E-W-Ö-H-N-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1so, wie unter diesen Umständen meist oder immer
- 2keine besonderen Merkmale aufweisend
- 3von niederer Erziehung seiend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gewöhnlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie antwortete wie gewöhnlich.
Für gewöhnlich sind sie pünktlich.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwöhnlich
- gewhönlich
- gewwöhnlich
- gewöhhnlich
- gewöhlnich
- gewöhnilch
- gewöhnlcih
- gewöhnlicch
- gewöhnlichh
- gewöhnlihc
- gewöhnllich
- gewöhnnlich
- gewönhlich
- geöwhnlich
- ggewöhnlich
- gweöhnlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gewöhnlich - 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 "gewöhnlich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).