Vetter
[ˈfɛtɐ]
The verdict
“Vetter” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,996. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,996
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sohn des Bruders des Vaters
Corpus desk
Index DE-vetter · Vetter · German
Vetter · rank #11,996 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,996
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Verwandtschaft
Nearest frequency peer: Verwandtschaft (-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 „Vetter“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verlieben
verlieben
88,008 corpus weight
- versicherten
versicherten
88,007 corpus weight
- Verwandtsch…
Verwandtschaft
88,006 corpus weight
- Vetter
Vetter
88,005 corpus weight
- VHS
VHS
88,004 corpus weight
- Virginia
Virginia
88,003 corpus weight
What this shows „Vetter“ 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 | Vetter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɛtɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Vetter“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Vetter (IPA [ˈfɛtɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,996 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Vetter, with forms such as "evtter", "veter", and "vetetr". 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, "vierter", "Vater", "Vettel", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Vetter, spelled V-E-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sohn des Bruders des Vaters
- 2Sohn eines Onkels oder einer Tante
- 3entfernter Verwandter
- 4Onkel väterlicherseits (Vaterbruder)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vetter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Vetter aus München ist letztes Jahr verstorben.
Der Vetter Jakob kommt heute zu Besuch, um mit dem Papa zu sprechen.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evtter
- veter
- vetetr
- vetterr
- vettre
- vteter
- vvetter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Vetter - 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 "Vetter", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).