irgendwer
[ˈɪʁɡn̩tˈveːɐ̯]
The verdict
“irgendwer” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,072. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,072
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine oder mehrere unbestimmte Person(en)
Corpus desk
Index DE-irgendwer · irgendwer · German
irgendwer · rank #7,072 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,072
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH interpretiert
Nearest frequency peer: interpretiert (-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 „irgendwer“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Insekten
Insekten
92,931 corpus weight
- interpretie…
interpretiert
92,930 corpus weight
- irgendwer
irgendwer
92,929 corpus weight
- Jonathan
Jonathan
92,928 corpus weight
- Justin
Justin
92,927 corpus weight
- klappen
klappen
92,926 corpus weight
What this shows „irgendwer“ 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 | irgendwer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ˈɪʁɡn̩tˈveːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „irgendwer“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around irgendwer (IPA [ˈɪʁɡn̩tˈveːɐ̯]), apronoun. Corpus frequency is #7,072 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine oder mehrere unbestimmte Person(en)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for irgendwer, with forms such as "igrendwer", "iregndwer", and "irgednwer". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "irgendwo", "irgendwie", "irgendwoher", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is irgendwer, spelled I-R-G-E-N-D-W-E-R.
Definition
- 1eine oder mehrere unbestimmte Person(en)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how irgendwer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Mann ist nicht irgendwer.“
„Gar nichts hilft das irgendwem.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- igrendwer
- iregndwer
- irgednwer
- irgenddwer
- irgendewr
- irgendwerr
- irgendwre
- irgendwwer
- irgenndwer
- irgenwder
- irggendwer
- irgnedwer
- irrgendwer
- rigendwer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of irgendwer - 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 "irgendwer", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).