Vorwahl
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,854
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
Vorwahl is aGermannoun. It means: Nummer für bestimmte Orte und Länder, die der eigentlichen Telefonnummer vorangestellt wird Pronounced [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌvaːl]. Often confused with Vorwand and Vorwahlen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vorwahl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌvaːl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Vorwahl is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌvaːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,854 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Vorwahl, with forms such as "ovrwahl", "vorawhl", and "vorrwahl". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Vorwand", "Vorwahlen", "vorsah", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Vorwahl, spelled V-O-R-W-A-H-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nummer für bestimmte Orte und Länder, die der eigentlichen Telefonnummer vorangestellt wird
- 2Wahl zur Ermittlung von Kandidaten für eine bestimmte Wahl
- 3vorläufige Auswahl
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ovrwahl,vorawhl,vorrwahl,vorwahhl,vorwahll,vorwalh,vorwhal,vorwwahl,vowrahl,vrowahl,vvorwahl
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Vorwahl"
Frequency rank: #32,854 in German
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