Gewürze
[ɡəˈvʏʁt͡sə]
The verdict
“Gewürze” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,271
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Gewürz
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 | Gewürze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈvʏʁt͡sə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Gewürze” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Gewürze (IPA [ɡəˈvʏʁt͡sə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,271 among 54,401 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gewürze, with forms such as "egwürze", "gewrüze", and "gewwürze". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "gewürzt", "Gewürzen", "Gewürz", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Gewürze, spelled G-E-W-Ü-R-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Gewürz
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Gewürz
- 3Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Gewürz
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egwürze
- gewrüze
- gewwürze
- gewürez
- gewürrze
- gewürzze
- gewüzre
- geüwrze
- ggewürze
- gweürze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gewürze - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Using “Gewürze”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E-W-Ü-R-Z-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡəˈvʏʁt͡sə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “gewürzt” - see the side-by-side comparison. Gewürze vs gewürzt
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
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.