Wählerschaft
[ˈvɛːlɐʃaft]
The verdict
“Wählerschaft” has 20 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,316. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,316
- frequency rank, German
- 38,697
- “W” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gesamtheit der Wähler, die eine bestimmte politische Partei oder einen bestimmten, zur Wahl stehenden Kandidaten wählen
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 | Wählerschaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛːlɐʃaft] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #37,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wählerschaft” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around Wählerschaft (IPA [ˈvɛːlɐʃaft]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,316 among 38,697 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gesamtheit der Wähler, die eine bestimmte politische Partei oder einen bestimmten, zur Wahl stehenden Kandidaten wählen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wählerschaft, with forms such as "whälerschaft", "wwählerschaft", and "wähelrschaft". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Wanderschaft", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Wählerschaft, spelled W-Ä-H-L-E-R-S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Gesamtheit der Wähler, die eine bestimmte politische Partei oder einen bestimmten, zur Wahl stehenden Kandidaten wählen
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- whälerschaft
- wwählerschaft
- wähelrschaft
- wähhlerschaft
- wählercshaft
- wählerrschaft
- wählerscahft
- wählerscchaft
- wählerschafft
- wählerschaftt
- wählerschatf
- wählerschfat
- wählerschhaft
- wählershcaft
- wählersschaft
- wählesrchaft
- wähllerschaft
- wählreschaft
- wälherschaft
- äwhlerschaft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Wählerschaft - 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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Using “Wählerschaft”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-Ä-H-L-E-R-S-C-H-A-F-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈvɛːlɐʃaft] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Wanderschaft” - see the side-by-side comparison. Wählerschaft vs Wanderschaft
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.