w
[veː]
The verdict
“w” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #642) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #642
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - w ist eine wenig verbreitete Abkürzung für „Woche“
Corpus desk
Index DE-w · w · German
w · rank #642 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #642
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Seiten
Nearest frequency peer: Seiten (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „w“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Partei
Partei
99,362 corpus weight
- reden
reden
99,361 corpus weight
- Seiten
Seiten
99,360 corpus weight
- w
w
99,359 corpus weight
- willst
willst
99,358 corpus weight
- wobei
wobei
99,357 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „w“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | w |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [veː] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „w“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for w is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "WM", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [veː]. Frequency #642 among 2,930 “W” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for w in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "WM", "WE", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is w, spelled W.
Definition
- 1w ist eine wenig verbreitete Abkürzung für „Woche“
- 2die Kleinschreibform/Minuskel des 23. Buchstaben des lateinischen Alphabetes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how w appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 w hat 7 Tage.
In alphabetischer Reihenfolge kommt vor „w“ „v“ und nach „w“ kommt „x“.
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.