Voyeur

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Voyeur is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vo̯aˈjøːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,939 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Person, die zur sexuellen Erregung gelangt, wenn sie anderen bei sexuellen Handlungen heimlich zusieht".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Voyeur, with forms such as "ovyeur", "voeyur", and "voyeru". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Voyeur, spelled V-O-Y-E-U-R.