gewünscht
[ɡəˈvʏnʃt]
The verdict
“gewünscht” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,122. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,122
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erhofft oder beabsichtigt
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewunscht · gewünscht · German
gewünscht · rank #4,122 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,122
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH geringe
Nearest frequency peer: geringe (-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 „gewünscht“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- fühlte
fühlte
95,882 corpus weight
- geprüft
geprüft
95,881 corpus weight
- geringe
geringe
95,880 corpus weight
- gewünscht
gewünscht
95,879 corpus weight
- goldene
goldene
95,878 corpus weight
- Grundstück
Grundstück
95,877 corpus weight
What this shows „gewünscht“ 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 | gewünscht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvʏnʃt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gewünscht“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around gewünscht (IPA [ɡəˈvʏnʃt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,122 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "erhofft oder beabsichtigt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for gewünscht, with forms such as "egwünscht", "gewnüscht", and "gewwünscht". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "gewünschte", "gewünschten", "geduscht", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 gewünscht, spelled G-E-W-Ü-N-S-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1erhofft oder beabsichtigt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gewünscht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Bundesregierung lehnt die von der Stadt Hamburg gewünschte Kostenbeteiligung für die Ausrichtung Olympischer Spiele 2024 offenbar ab.
Andere Nachteile: Bei zu kurzfristiger Buchung kann das gewünschte Auto am gewünschten Standort nicht verfügbar sein.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwünscht
- gewnüscht
- gewwünscht
- gewüncsht
- gewünnscht
- gewünsccht
- gewünschht
- gewünschtt
- gewünscth
- gewünshct
- gewünsscht
- gewüsncht
- geüwnscht
- ggewünscht
- gweünscht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gewünscht - 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 "gewünscht", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).