Gewürz
[ɡəˈvʏʁt͡s]
The verdict
“Gewürz” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,776
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pflanzenteile (besonders von Kräutern), die gemahlen oder ganz einer Speise beigemengt werden, um ihren Geschmack zu verbessern
Corpus desk
Index DE-gewurz · Gewürz · German
Gewürz · rank #38,776 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,776
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gewehren
Nearest frequency peer: Gewehren (-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 „Gewürz“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gets
gets
61,228 corpus weight
- gewaltberei…
gewaltbereite
61,227 corpus weight
- Gewehren
Gewehren
61,226 corpus weight
- Gewürz
Gewürz
61,225 corpus weight
- Giacomo
Giacomo
61,224 corpus weight
- Gleichschal…
Gleichschaltung
61,222 corpus weight
What this shows „Gewürz“ 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 | Gewürz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvʏʁt͡s] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gewürz“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Gewürz (IPA [ɡəˈvʏʁt͡s]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,776 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pflanzenteile (besonders von Kräutern), die gemahlen oder ganz einer Speise beigemengt werden, um ihren Geschmack zu verbessern".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gewürz, with forms such as "egwürz", "gewrüz", and "gewwürz". 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, "Gewürze", "gewürzt", "Gewürzen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gewürz, spelled G-E-W-Ü-R-Z.
Definition
- 1Pflanzenteile (besonders von Kräutern), die gemahlen oder ganz einer Speise beigemengt werden, um ihren Geschmack zu verbessern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gewürz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit den passenden Gewürzen wird dieser Auflauf sehr gut schmecken.
„Wir hatten neben anderen Waren vor allem zweiundvierzig Ballen indische Stoffe der verschiedensten Art, wie Seiden, Musseline und feine Chintze, bei uns, dazu fünfzehn Ballen sehr kostbare chinesische Seiden und siebzig Bündel oder Ballen Gewürze, insbesondere Nelken und Muskatnüsse.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwürz
- gewrüz
- gewwürz
- gewürrz
- gewürzz
- gewüzr
- geüwrz
- ggewürz
- gweürz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gewürz - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Gewürz", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).